objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the biological effects of opium on the number of peripheral blood cells and red blood cells (rbcs) indices in diabetic rats. materials and methods peripheral blood samples were collected from diabetic, opium-addicted, diabetic opium-addicted and normal male and female rats and hematological parameters were measured. results the mean number of whi...

This study aimed to identify risk factors involved in Internet addiction. A total of 216 college students (132 males and 84 females) were given the following: (a) the diagnostic interview for Internet addiction, (b) the Iowa gambling test for decision-making deficits, (c) the Balloon Analog Risk Test (BART) to assess risk-taking tendencies, and (d) the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (...

- Methadone, a synthetic opioid agonist, is commonly used for the treatment of heroin dependence. Depending on how alcohol addiction is defined, rates of alcoholism vary among those attending methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programmes. Most of the current literature has shown that alcohol consumption increases during medium- or long-term MMT. However, up to now, no data have been reported...

Chewing and smoking of tobacco as well as drinking of alcohol have been reported as the risk factors for oral cancer. The high incidence of oral cancer in India and gradual increase of oral cancer patients at the Out Patient Department of Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Center (AHRCC) Cuttack, Odisha (the only Government Hospital of the state dedicated for the treatment of the cancer patients) ...

OBJECTIVE Addiction is often considered a dissociative behavior that is related to alexithymia and developmental trauma. The study aims were to explore the relationships between early trauma, alexithymia, and dissociation. METHODS A total of 117 (males=60; females=57) alcohol-addicted individuals and 117 healthy individuals (males=60; females=57) were administered a series of self-report ques...

Since problematic internet use has long been a matter of public concern. The purpose of this study was to evaluate prevalence of internet addiction and its relation with depression and self esteem. This study is descriptive correlation, 408 students (258 males and 150 females) were chosen by multi step cluster sampling. The tools of measurement were the Young internet addiction, coopersmith sel...

Globally, it is agreed that the internet can serve as a tool enhances well-being but there no consensus regarding what constitutes problematic use and relationship with offline behavioral addictions. Internet addiction threatens to develop into major public health issue in near future rapidly developing country like India. The objective of this study estimate prevalence disorder assess impact f...

A five-year prospective study (March 2003-March 2008) of burn victims hospitalized in a major burns centre in Iran was conducted in order to survey the aetiology and outcome of burns in patients who were drug addicts. Three hundred and thirty patients addicted to drugs were identified and stratified by age, sex, burn size, presence or absence of inhalation injury, kinds of abuse agents, and cau...

BACKGROUND Opium is a unique substance, regarding its analgesic effects. This may change the deteriorating effects of coronary artery disease (CAD) on quality of life (QOL) in addicted patients. OBJECTIVES We studied the QOL in opium-addicted and non-addicted CAD patients so as to determine the relationship between CAD risk factors and the subscales of their QOL. PATIENTS AND METHODS Demogr...