Substance abuse withdrawal symptoms are often precipitants of relapse. Music therapy is a complementary and integrative psychosocial treatment modality that is often used in substance abuse rehabilitation settings. The purpose of this chapter is to orient readers to music therapy as a complimentary and integrative treatment and briefly summarize music therapy studies targeting substance abuse w...

BACKGROUND Primary care physicians prescribe benzodiazepines for the treatment of anxiety. Although most patients use the benzodiazepines appropriately, some patients experience benzodiazepine abuse, addiction, or physical dependence, each one of which is a distinct syndrome. Benzodiazepine dependence, which relates to the development of tolerance and an abstinence syndrome, can be produced by ...

BACKGROUND Tramadol is a centrally acting opioid analgesic used to treat moderate to sever pain. It has more advantage and less opioid adverse effects than conventional opioid analgesia. CASE REPORT This article reports a patient with tramadol dependency that had psychosis after tramadol withdrawal. CONCLUSION By the increase of tramadol usage for relief of chronic pain, tramadol abuse and ...

264 The fact that alcohol is an addictive drug has been known to man for millennia. Alcohol abuse/dependence is the most common substance-related disorder. A drug can be defined as a substance that produces tolerance (increasingly large amounts are needed to produce the same effect) and withdrawal (psychological and physical distress develop after substance use ceases). The addicted person suff...

Increasing tendency to drug use is a major social problem, Treatment attempts, regardless of the motivation, are not complete. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between treatment motivation, substance use, craving, withdrawal symptoms and health locus of control in addicted patients. Research population this study included all male and female patients referring to the addiction tr...

conclusions depression and anxiety are prevalent in methamphetamine users. short-term abstinence improves depression and quality of life but does not improve anxiety in methamphetamine abusers. during follow up of these patients, addressing depression and anxiety is important to achieve better results. results the mean depression score after abstinence decreased significantly (p < 0.001). both ...