Aims: The purpose of this paper is to argue that it is important to recognize that addicts are morally accountable even for their addictive action, as moral agency is more generally an important factor in full-blown human agency. The challenge is to identify the problems that addicts have in their agency without discarding their potentially full-blown agency. Design: In philosophy of agency, mo...

background due to its progressive nature in all aspects of life, addiction endangers the health of individuals, families and the society. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the role of self-regulation and affective control in predicting interpersonal reactivity of drug addicts. materials and methods this research is a correlation study. the statistical population of this stud...

Heroin addiction is a chronic, complex disease, often accompanied by other concomitant disorders, which may encumber effective prevention and treatment. To explore the differences in expression profiles of serum proteins in control and heroin addicts, we used two-dimensional electrophoresis coupled to MALDI-TOF/TOF, and identified 4 proteins of interest. Following validation of the increase in ...

To the Editor: There has recently been an explosion of interest in, and research on, the personality of opiate addicts. Individuals with substance use disorders suffer from high rates of non-substance use psychiatric disorders. A survey found axis II disorders in 90% of opiate addicts. Another survey showed that there is a relationship between opiate dependence and some particular personality p...

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...

Objective: Food addiction is a behavioral that presents with addictive changes toward high sugar, fat, and highly palatable foods. This study aims to determine the relationship between food personality traits, personal habits, psychiatric symptomatology. Method: In cross-sectional design study, participation of 1500 students studying in Konya Selçuk University Central Campus was planned. A soci...

PURPOSE The findings of previous studies attracted our interest in searching and defining the percentage of deaths from cancer in 'heroin regular addicts' i.e. those who had never stopped taking the drug since they started. METHODS The archives of the Greek Reitox Focal Point of the years 2001 to 2010 were retrospectively searched, focusing on the number of deaths from cancer of the regular h...

It has been noted that many drug addicts relapse to drug use after discharged from successful treatment and rehabilitation programs. Thus it is imperative and timely to address the issues that prompt relapsed addiction. 400 drug addicts on relapse cases were selected from eight drug rehabilitation centres throughout Peninsular Malaysia to examine factors influences the relapsed addiction to dru...


 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...

-The aim of this research was to compare the ego strength of addicted and non addicted people. The sample size of 200 men (100 addicts+ 100 non addicts) living in Karaj and Tehran cities of Islamic Republic of Iran that was selected through the availability sampling. To collect data, a 52-item BESS (Barrons ego strength scale) questionnaire was used. Averages and t test were applied as statisti...