Journal:
:iranian journal of psychiatry
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masoomeh maarefvand department of social work, university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, tehran, iran
hamid reza ghiasvand department of educational psychology, islamic azad university, saveh, iran
hamed ekhtiari neurocognitive laboratory, iranian national center for addiction studies, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran
translational neuroscience program, iranian institute for cognitive sciences studies (icss)
objective: drug craving is defined as an urge to continue substance abuse. drug dependents use different terms to express their subjective feeling of craving. this study was an attempt to generate an understanding of craving terminology among different groups of persian speaking iranian opiate dependents. method: terms used for the meaning of drug craving were listed by 36 ex-opiate dependents ...