Introduction: Substance abuse is one of the health, medical, and social problems in today’s world that affects more or less all societies. Adolescence is one of the riskiest periods of life in terms of beginning high-risk behaviors such as drug use. Objective: This study aimed to determine the relationship between social skills and attitudes towards substance abuse in high school adolescent...

Approximately five million adults in the United States have co-occurring disorders (Substance Abuse and Mental Health and Human Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2006). “Co-occurring disorders” denotes the simultaneous diagnosis of a substance use disorder and a serious mental illness. An individual with co-occurring disorders may have one or more substance use disorder in addition to one or mo...

abstract: introduction: psychiatric disorder is a disease in which patients suffer from emotional problems that these are visible in all aspect of patient’s life. studies show that there is a major difference between the prevalence of this disease in different countries and also show that this disorder is increasing. the aim of this study is to find the possible relationship between psychiatric...

A national household probability sample of 4,023 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years was interviewed by telephone about substance use, victimization experiences, familial substance use, and posttraumatic reactions to identify risk factors for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--(4th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) defined substance abuse/dependence. Age and ethnicity...

Jerrold B. Leikin, MD ubstance-related disorders are conditions in which an individual uses/ buses a substance, leading to maladaptive behaviors and symptoms. In iagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders, 4th dition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR), substance-related disorders are urther grouped into substance dependence and substance abuse. Subtance abuse refers to a maladaptive pa...

The relationship between antisocial personality (ASP) disorder and drug and alcohol disorders was examined using data from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) gathered on a sample of 1,149 male prison inmates. The results of a linear canonical discriminant function analysis indicate differences among those with a DIS/ASP diagnosis that are related to the presence or absence of an accompanyi...

conclusions considering non-modifiable risk factors, leaders and commanders may recognize more vulnerable soldiers and try to resolve modifiable factors and decrease the risk of getting worse (with respect to substance abuse) about 7.3 times. results totally, 6.7% of soldiers improved, 82% remained without change, 6.1% deteriorated, and 5.2% severely deteriorated with regard to their substance ...