OBJECTIVE to identify the reasons and motivations why family members search treatment for the drug addicted. METHOD descriptive qualitative research, developed in 2012 and 2013, in a Drug Addicts Rehabilitation Unit of Parana State, Brazil. A total of 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the drug addicts' family members in treatment. The results were analyzed based on the Transth...

suppression of cell mediated immunity. Aflatoxins were detected more commonly in urine from users in The Netherlands than from those in ,Merseyside. Aflatoxin B1, the most toxic aflatoxin, was detected in eight specimens from The Netherlands but only one from Merseyside; the most common aflatoxin detected in the specimens from Merseyside was aflatoxin MI, a less toxic derivative of B1. These va...

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in social characteristics (level of education, working and family status, and criminal record) between heroin addicts, cannabis users and a control group. Additional goal was to explore the possibility of discerning subjects of different addiction status (of both gender) based on their scores on Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ). In...

This study computed the life expectancy of a cohort of male narcotics addicts followed for 33 years and assessed the productivity lost as a result of premature mortality. The future life expectancy was constructed for the narcotics addicts and for a comparable cohort from the general U.S. population. The average future life expectancy of the cohort was 18.84 years compared to 33.48 years for co...

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity is usually altered by heroin use. In the present study we evaluated in one hundred twenty-one heroin addicts the effects of marijuana smoking on the normalization of HPA axis upon methadone treatment. The study showed that in heroin addicts who are chronic cannabis smokers a treatment with methadone lasting 12 months was able to normalize b...

Semisynthetic penicillinase-resistant penicillins are recommended for therapy of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis, but evaluation of the efficacy and safety of individual agents has received little attention. At The New York Hospital, 11 heroin addicts and 5 nonaddicts were treated with nafcillin. The 11 addicts did well clinically, but four of the five nonaddicts had severe complications, an...

objective: the aim of the present research was to evaluate the psychological well-being and quality of sleep in addicts under methadone treatment for at least 6 months. methods: a total of 40 individuals were selected through purposeful sampling method among the referring addicts to 2 addiction centers in eastern tehran. participants took the ryff scale of psychological well-being (rspwb) and p...

Demonstrating the effect of the volunteer factor on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of addicts and nonaddicts, Gendreau and Gendreau suggested that previously reported MMPI differences between these two subject groups might well be explained by the "volunteer" status of the addict group. This article describes more thoroughly the unincarcerated addict sample, almost ...

Choice models of addiction raise a stark puzzle. Why, if addicts are able to control their consumption and choose to abstain in many circumstances, do they routinely choose to continue to use despite negative consequences? We delineate four options available to a choice theorist to explain this puzzle with respect to human addicts; describe recent experiments with addicted rats which determine ...

This study was set out to investigate perceived social support and clinical anger among drug addicts of Southern Punjab, Pakistan. The research contained a sample of seventy (70) registered drug addicts of age18-65 years, selected randomly from three major cities/divisions of Southern-Punjab (Bahawalpur, Multan, and Dera Ghazi Khan). Sample was divided into two age groups; young adults (18-35 y...