BACKGROUND Most help-seeking substance abusers have comorbid psychiatric disorders. The importance of such disorders for the long-term course of substance abuse is, however, still unclear. The aim of this paper is to describe six-year outcomes regarding death and relapse among alcoholics and poly-substance abusers and to analyse the predictive value of lifetime psychiatric disorders on relapse....

This study attempted to examine cough medicine abuse amongst young people in Hong Kong. There were three parts in this study. The first part was based on a quantitative survey of the pattern and psychosocial correlates of young cough medicine abusers in Hong Kong (160 cough medicine abusers and 65 nonabusers). In the second part of the study, focus groups were conducted involving young cough me...

purpose: to examine the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt) based on schema on impulsiveness of substance abusers in karaj. materials and methods: this study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and control group. the statistical population of this study consisted of male substance abusers who referred to addiction treatment clinics of karaj in 2010. the sample ...

Background: Emotion plays an important role in adapting to life changes and stressful events. Difficulty regulating emotions is one of the problems drug abusers often face. The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotion regulation training on increasing self-efficacy and well-being in drug-dependent individuals. Materials and Methods: The present study had a quasi-experime...

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 ...

This study compared treatment outcomes of substance abusers with and without antisocial personality disorder (APD) randomly assigned to two therapeutic communities, differing primarily in length of inpatient and outpatient treatment. We hypothesized that APD clients would be less likely to complete treatment, more likely to test positive for drugs and recidivate at follow-up, and that APD clien...

Inpatient detoxification is a common treatment modality for substance-dependent individuals. Studies report that around 13%-64% leave treatment against medical advice (AMA) or do not complete treatment [1]; more precisely, the range is 13%-33% among alcohol abusers [8,10] and 18%-64% among heroin abusers [1,2,6,9,11,12]. Despite these elevated rates, the reasons for this remain poorly understoo...

Drug and alcohol abusers frequently have legal difficulties, and the legal system often provides negative reinforcement for substance abuse treatment. In contrast, contingency management (CM) treatments utilize positive reinforcement procedures to improve patient outcomes. This study evaluated whether substance-abusing patients with legal problems at treatment entry had differential outcomes, i...