background: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is a common psychiatric disorder among children and adolescents that can be continued into adulthood in 30 to 50% of cases. adult adhd disorder can affect the performance of an individual and may predispose to drug abuse, alcoholism, smoking, sexual offenses, violation of law, educational and other social problems. the coincidences of ...

alcohol provokes different molecular pathways contributing to a clinically significant neurotoxicity in different brain areas. affected cognition in alcoholics can influence both daily life functioning and alcohol craving management abilities. preventing alcohol-induced neurotoxicity with different neuroprotective pharmacological interventions is receiving strong scientific backgrounds from pub...

alcohol, with its impact on both communicable and non-communicable diseases, is considered as the third global public health priority. alcohol ranked third among causes of ill health and premature death, and ranked second in terms of cost among all the substances of abuse, after tobacco, even though nearly half the world's population drinks alcohol. in most countries, where alcohol is considere...

the harmful use of alcohol inflicts great deal of social and economic losses on individuals and societies. given the increase in world population and the predicted increase in alcohol consumption, the alcohol related burden of disease progressively catches higher ranks in the list of factors threatening humans' life. it has been considered that the social and economic burden related to alcohol ...

Alcohol provokes different molecular pathways contributing to a clinically significant neurotoxicity in different brain areas. Affected cognition in alcoholics can influence both daily life functioning and alcohol craving management abilities. Preventing alcohol-induced neurotoxicity with different neuroprotective pharmacological interventions is receiving strong scientific backgrounds from pub...

the harmful use of alcohol causes an estimated 2.5 million deaths every year, of which a significant proportion occur in the young. alcohol use is the third leading risk factor for poor health globally. in response to harmful use of alcohol, world health organization developed a global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol endorsed by the sixty-third world health assembly in 2010. paral...

background: alcohol consumption is one of the main health problems in most countries. the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the reliability and validity of alcohol use disorders identification test (audit). methods: by employing the method of available sampling, 70 alcoholic patients were included as case group and 70 normal age, gender and education matched individuals were also incl...