results patients reported that their use of methamphetamine was motivated by methadone’s side effects and encouraged by family and friends who promoted methamphetamine use to assuage the side effects of methadone in the early stages of treatment before the appearance of methadone maintenance therapy’s effects on their life. patients and methods to gain a better understanding of patients’ motiva...

starting in 1990 many programs were initiated to prevent and control the spread of hiv/aids in prisons in accordance with the policies of the ministry of health. this study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of harm reduction programs vis-à-vis drug abuse and dependency in 7 prisons in iran.the methodology used is before-after testing and the sample population is incarcerated prisoners in 7...

in western asia, afghan refugees constitute one of the main vulnerable populations with drug and hiv treatment needs. however, there is not considerable provision of drug and hiv services for this group. the study aimed to describe the provision of drug treatment and harm reduction services for afghan refugees in iran, the most populous persian gulf country. with the collaboration of the united...

the ministry of health, treatment and medical education of iran has recently announced an estimated figure of 200,000 injecting drug users (idus). the aim of this study was to pilot a national program using demographics, types of drug abuse and prevalence of blood-borne infections among idus.in order to elicit data on demographics, types of drug abuse and prevalence of blood-borne infections am...

conclusions as the results showed, the trend of activities was encouraging and some additional activities could be included to future programs relying on early-onset preventions. results summarizing the data led to three distinguished sections: 1) drug supply reduction activities; 2) drug demand reduction activities; 3) harm reduction activities. evidence acquisition in this report, authors gat...

hiv/aids epidemic is concentrated among injecting drug users in iran. like many other countries with hiv/aids concentrated epidemic, prisons are high risk areas for spreading hiv/aids. the aim of this paper was to study the trend of hiv/aids prevalence and related interventions administered in prisons of iran during a 13 years period.this cross sectional study was conducted using the data colle...

This article discusses 3 different strategies for dealing with the harmful consequences of drug use and other risky behaviors: We can discourage people from engaging in the behavior (prevalence reduction), we can encourage people to reduce the frequency or extent of the behavior (quantity reduction), or we can try to reduce the harmful consequences of the behavior when it occurs (harm reduction...