Described as a gem in Islam, intellect can lead all individual and social behaviours towards balance, appeal godliness. Given the utmost importance of protecting this divine religion, everything from eating drinking to reading, listening entertainment is thus considered haram [ viz . remains prohibited] if it makes threats health mind soul. In general, narcotics substance abuse forms have crush...

As Internet use has proliferated worldwide, there has been debate whether some users develop disturbed patterns of Internet use (i.e., Internet abuse). This article highlights relevant literature on Internet abuse and computer-mediated communication effects that supports and disputes major questions about Internet abuse. Is the addiction paradigm appropriate for Internet use? Is behavior that h...

BACKGROUND: Several pharmacological approaches are effective in the treatment

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether childhood sexual abuse predicts initiation of injection drug use in a prospective cohort of youth. METHOD From October 2005 to November 2010, data were collected from the At Risk Youth Study (ARYS), a prospective cohort study of street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada. Inclusion criteria were age 14-26 years, no lifetime drug injection, and non-injecti...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between childhood abuse (emotional, physical and sexual abuse) and cannabis use among adolescents with mental health needs. Methods: Data on 3681 adolescent in-patients, 12–18 years old, were obtained from the Resident Assessment Instrument for Mental Health (RAI-MH). Using logistic regression, we estimated the odds of using ca...

Since the advent of HIV epidemic in the early 1980s, the medical care of illicit drug users has become central to national and local public health planning. Drug users are at high risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV to their social network via needle sharing, trading sex for drugs, sexual relations with steady partners, and perinatally. The association between alcohol abuse and high-risk be...

Data is presented on the prevalence of clinical AIDS and antibodies to the AIDSvirus in intravenous drug users. In addition, data from subjects followed overtwenty years in a California study on the natural history of narcotics addictionis reported. Information about AIDS attitudes and high risk behavior is relatedto sample characteristics and narcotics use patterns. The possibi...

Mood and substance use disorders (SUDs) are mental conditions that are highly prevalent in the general population. Cooccurrence of major depression and SUD, also known as dual depression, is very common in the field of substance addiction. Sex differences are found in both major depression and SUD. This review, after presenting the state of the art of dual depression as regards prevalence, ethi...