conclusions the results of this study in terms of personality disorders and types of used drugs were in accordance with the previous studies results. it is necessary to design appropriate treatment plans for medical treatment of those with personality disorders. results there was a significant correlation between stimulant use and histrionic personality disorder (p < 0.001) and antisocial and n...

growing number of evidence indicates that individuals' motivational structure - the patterning of an individual's way of relating to goals - plays an important role in increasing the risk of alcohol use. adaptive motivational structure which includes pursuit of important, subjectively attainable, alcohol-unrelated goals is inversely related to substance use. the strength of this relationship in...

background : family functioning is considered to have a significant impact on the beginnings and maintenance of substance use. objectives the main purpose of this study was to examine and compare the dimensions of family functioning among addicted and non-addicted individuals. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, the study sample consisted of 228 individuals, including 118 addict...

  Abstract   Background: Patients with addictions have many acute and chronic medical illnesses, both related and unrelated to their addictions. In spite of high incidence of   substance-related disabilities, substance abuse is usually underdiagnosed in general   hospitals. The objective of the present study was to investigate the frequency and pattern of substance use in patients with differen...

background : in the current study, pattern of substance abuse among adolescence and early adulthood that have experienced one or more substances was assessed, and also parental support, religiosity, and locus of control were measured. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in hamadan city, iran in 2006. all subjects were selected from hama­dan city (urban area), iran based on snowba...