abstract comorbidity of mental disorders and substance abuse has significant effect in treatment of persons with substance dependency. this research is aimed to determine the frequency of mental disorders in substance abusers. in cross-sectional descriptive design, 643 people were selected using convenience random sampling among patients with substance dependency that were undergoing treatment ...

background: substance abuse is one of the most complicated social problems. understanding socio-demographic characteristics of those who abuse substances could help deal with this problem more efficiently. the main objective of this study was to determine socio-demographic characteristics associated with alcohol drinking, cigarettes smoking and drug abuse among a sample of male medical universi...

introduction: narcotic drug abuse and illicit use of drugs is a major, complicated multifactorial phenomenon affecting most of the societies today. incidence of drug abuse among adolescents is very high. adolescents become addicted to substances more quickly than adults. the aim of this study was to assess the pattern of drug abuse among male adolescents in hamadan. methods: this study was a de...

The interaction of drugs with biologic targets is a critical area of research, particularly for the development of medications to treat substance use disorders. In addition to understanding these drug-target interactions, however, there is a need to understand more fully the psychosocial influences that moderate these interactions. The first section of this review introduces some examples from ...

research findings have shown that birth order and season of birth are related to some of the mental disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders. autism, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity and substance abuse, and these disorders are related to dopamine level. a retrospective study was designed to investigate 130 substance abusers (119 males and 11 females) which were treated duri...

substance abuse in adolescents and its often tragic consequences, including addiction, is one of the preventable major public health problems. the aims of this paper were to estimate the prevalence of substance abuse and to evaluate its some associated factors in adolescents of tabriz city (northwest of iran).a self-administered questionnaire was completed in 4903 randomly selected students wit...

background : the existing evidence about the clinical situations of the bipolar patients with opioid dependence is scarce. the present study was carried out to compare the clinical features and course of the bipolar disorder type i regarding the two subgroups of opioid dependent and non-dependent. methods : there were 178 adult patients with bipolar disorder type i consecutively referred to the...

ecstasy is one of the newest drugs in the same category with amphetamines which has stimulating effects in the same families of amphetamines and lsd. there hasn't been a structured and organized study on this drug in iran. it has been used in great scale in all western countries. studies at san francisco and australia with snowballing method, revealed that this drug is used by active young...