Cocaine addiction is increasingly considered to stem from the development of maladaptive, stimulus bound, drug seeking habits that both contribute to the maintenance of drug use despite aversive consequences, and also to high rates of relapse. However because relapse by definition occurs only after a period of abstinence, the relative contribution of habits and pharmacological withdrawal from t...

The risks of prescribing pregabalin to patients already addicted illicit drugs or alcohol almost always outweigh the benefits, therefore deprescribing is usually appropriate. This article outlines safe and realistic protocols reduce stop in with major addiction problems.

J.A. Hicks and C. Routledge (eds.), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_28, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 When the general public conjures up pictures of alcohol abuse or addiction, extreme images of men living on the street or of celebrities fallen from grace and on their way to the Bett...

Alcoholism can be defined by a compulsion to seek and take drug, loss of control in limiting intake, and the emergence of a negative emotional state when access to the drug is prevented. Alcoholism impacts multiple motivational mechanisms and can be conceptualized as a disorder that includes a progression from impulsivity (positive reinforcement) to compulsivity (negative reinforcement). The co...

alcohol, with its impact on both communicable and non-communicable diseases, is considered as the third global public health priority. alcohol ranked third among causes of ill health and premature death, and ranked second in terms of cost among all the substances of abuse, after tobacco, even though nearly half the world's population drinks alcohol. in most countries, where alcohol is considere...

Alcohol (ethanol) is the commonest addictive substance known to man and is accepted as a legal psychotropic drug by most customs and religions. It is, however, well known that heavy consumption of alcohol will lead to physical, mental, social and economic damage, just as it will with the chronic consumption of any other pharmacologically active substance. It is because of this and the increased...

Abstract Introduction Connection of socioeconomic status measures (such as income and education and parental addiction) to childhood leukemia are likely to vary with place and time. The aim of this study was to assess the relation between socioeconomic status and childhood leukemia. Materials and Methods a case- control study conducted on 86 case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia age 0-14 yea...

Alcohol abuse causes dramatic neuroadaptations in the brain, which contribute to tolerance, dependence, and behavioral modifications. Previous proteomic studies in human alcoholics and animal models have identified candidate alcoholism-related proteins. However, recent evidences suggest that alcohol dependence is caused by changes in co-regulation that are invisible to single protein-based anal...

Aim: This study aimed to investigate how the mental tension and environmental conditions caused by COVID-19 pandemic affected alcohol substance use habits of university students changes in rates antidepressant drug for mood disorders due pandemic.Material Method: cross-sectional survey was conducted using an electronic completed Turkey between years 2021-2022. Our consisted a questionnaire prep...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the relationships between parental mediation and Internet addiction, and the connections to cyberbullying, substance use, and depression among adolescents. METHOD The study involved 1808 junior high school students who completed a questionnaire in Taiwan in 2013. RESULTS Multiple logistic regression analysis results showed that adolescents who perceived lower l...