OBJECTIVE to identify the reasons and motivations why family members search treatment for the drug addicted. METHOD descriptive qualitative research, developed in 2012 and 2013, in a Drug Addicts Rehabilitation Unit of Parana State, Brazil. A total of 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the drug addicts' family members in treatment. The results were analyzed based on the Transth...


 Objective: To investigate the relationship between social exclusion and relapse tendency of drug addicts, mediating role negative coping style them. Methods: 130 SG addicts were investigated with Social Exclusion Experience Scale, Simple Coping Style Scale (SCSQ) Relapse Tendency (RTQ). Results: (1) styles had significant positive correlation tendency; (2) direct (3) could not only direc...

Aim: In the last decade, the prevalence of injecting drugs has been increasing rapidly. Injecting drug use puts one at the risk of risky behaviors that affect the health of individual and society. The present study aims at evaluating and comparing risky behaviors of injecting and non-injecting drug users. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 4400 addicts referred to public, priva...

abstract the present study examined the relationship between personality traits and marital adjustment in methadone maintained drug addicts and non addicts. the population of the study consists of male (n-52) addicts and non-addicts (n=52), randomly selected through sampling procedure. cloninger’s temperament and character inventory questionnaire (tci-56) and dyadic adjustment scale (das) were ...

Drug metabolites usually have structures of split-ring resonators (SRRs), which might lead to negative permittivity and permeability in electromagnetic field. As a result, in the UV-vis region, the latent fingermarks images of drug addicts and non drug users are inverse. The optical properties of latent fingermarks are quite different between drug addicts and non-drug users. This is a technic s...

 Introduction: Many studies have revealed that drug addicted individuals exhibit impaired performance on executive function tests but a few studies have been conducted on executive functions of drug addicts in Iran. To contribute to this understanding, the present study was designed to assess some domains related to executive functions including cognitive flexibility, attention and speed of men...

Objective: to describe the profi le of drug addicts attended in a mental health service, the frequency of suicidal behavior among the participants and the associations between these two problems. Method: an exploratory, retrospective and descriptive study based on a quantitative approach, and data collected from medical records of patients with F10-F19 diagnoses according to the ICD-10 treated ...

Dentists who treat teen and pre-teen age patients probably have been in contact with drug addicts. Addicts mcty seek only crisis-oriented dental care and may attempt to gain a prescription from the dentist. The dentist should be aware of patients who have been or are presently on drugs and should not treat these patients while they are under the influence o[ an abused drug. Addicts injecting dr...