Drug misuse is a major social, legal, and public-health challenge in the modern world. Drug misuse affects society, family, individual users and offsprings. Using illicit substances during pregnancy is common. A study in UK inner-city clinic demonstrated 16% of the women had taken one or more illicit substances. Screening newborns in a high-risk urban population of USA revealed 44% of 3010 babi...

Background: Drug abuse is one of the major socio-medical problems of our time with a global scope. Abusing street drugs is on the rise among adults and is considered as a public health concern. In addition, limited studies are available in this regard. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of street drug poisoning in the Razi Hospital of Ahvaz in Iran during 2008-2013....

A rare case is described where an adolescent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosed in childhood subsequently developed alcohol and drug abuse. He later developed intranasal methylphenidate abuse and dependence after realizing that urine drug screens were expected to be positive for prescribed methylphenidate. This report is to alert physicians to the rare possibility of intran...

A very agitated and nervous 20-year-old presented with severe dental pain, bad breath and complaining about his poor dental appearance. A comprehensive intraoral and radiographic examination revealed 22 carious and erosion lesions. He reported using methamphetamine for the better part of five years and had not experienced problems with the teeth prior to using the drug. The patient’s medical an...

Objective: Polysubstance use as a severity index in individuals with substance abuse disorder is associated various psychological, social, cultural, and genetic factors. This research aims to examine the predictive role of personality traits, functions, traumatic life events, emotion-regulation difficulties polysubstance dependence. Methods: A total 300 subjects (75.2% male) mean age 40.07 year...