The aim of the present study was to investigate the nutritional status of drug addicts, the prevalence of malnutrition among them and the influence of their drug habit and lifestyle factors on their nutritional indices. The study was conducted among 253 male drug addicts, who sought detoxification at the Central Drug Addiction Treatment Hospital, Dhaka, during the period of June 1998-July 1999....

drugs is not available as an excuse for committing crimes against property. Drug users are held responsible for their own criminal activities, like all other citizens, and they are prosecuted-but they may be referred to treatment facilities. This approach cannot, unfortunately, be offered to all addicts, and, indeed, around a third of all prison inmates are drug addicts. Education on the risks ...

This study aims to identify the causes of drug use and forms social stigma surrounding addiction from point view recovered addicts. Adopting a descriptive approach, researchers based their conclusions on results questionnaire that was responded by 200 addicts who have attended rehabilitation centres in Sharjah. The revealed main reasons for were peer influence, followed curiosity desire experim...

BACKGROUND/AIM The effect of drugs leaves permanent consequences on the brain, organic in type, followed by numerous manifestations, and it significantly affects the development of mental dysfunctions. The clinicians are often given a task to estimate a patient's personality during treatment or during experts estimate of a drug addict. The aim of this research was to determine the differences, ...

INTRODUCTION Some research results point to significant benefit in the use of methadone substitution treatment in reduction of criminogenic activities in opiate addicts, as in positive affect on their somatic and mental state. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to indicate factors which lead to criminogenic activities in addicts with judicial problems before entering substitute, methado...

Methamphetamine (METH) is a widely abused illegal psychostimulant, which is confirmed to be neurotoxic and of great damage to human. Studies on the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in human METH addicts are limited and inconsistent. The purposes of this study are to compare the serum BDNF levels between METH addicts and healthy controls during early withdrawal, and explore the c...

One hundred and ten male heroin addicts were administered 'Eysenck Personality Questionnaire' a self reporting measure. High scores on psychoticism, neuroticism and lie scale and low scores on extroversion in heroin addicts as compared to normal controls (n=50) were observed in this study which were comparable with those reported earlier. Further, it appears that high neuroticism scores are mor...

Present investigation is an attempt to examine the affective components i.e. anxiety and depression among the heroin addicts (N=50) and its comparison with their normal counterparts (N=50). Anxiety Scale and Beck-Depression Inventory (BDI) tests were administered on both the samples of heroin addicts and normal groups. Test Scores were analysed using one way ANOVA. The results showed significan...

INTRODUCTION Cryoglobulins are single or mixed immunoglobulins that are subject to reversible precipitation at low temperatures. OBJECTIVE The aims of this paper were: 1. Comparison of cryoglobulin positive (CP), cryoglobulin negative (CN) heroin addicts and the control group (CG) in terms of serum immunoglobulins IgG, IgA and IgM and complement components C3 and C4; 2. Comparison of CP and C...