Introduction. Psychoactive drug addiction causes serious consequences in many countries, not only for the health of nation, but also emergence various social problems, such as high crime rates, delinquency and unemployment. Material Methods. A retrospective-prospective study included data 100 criminal offenders, addicts, gathered from forensic psychiatric records context offences committed by t...

Research findings on addiction are contradictory. According to biographical records and widely used diagnostic manuals, addicts use drugs compulsively. These accounts are consistent with genetic research and laboratory experiments in which repeated administration of addictive drugs caused changes in neural substrates associated with reward. However, epidemiological and experimental data show th...

This article presents an artificial drug abusers system consolidating the impact of treatment with psychological and physiological addicts under fuzzy parameters. In model, all parameters are considered to be triangular numbers represent uncertainty that pervaded dynamics. To handle arrangements while avoiding problems, model is turned into a defuzzified using utility function method. The model...

BACKGROUND Addiction is one of the most serious social damages and due to its progressive nature in all aspects, adversely affects people's physical and psychological health. Hence, this paper investigates the characteristics of drug addicts in a drug rehabilitation center in the city of Isfahan. METHODS In this cross-sectional study conducted in 2012, the population consisted of all addicts ...