the youth trend factors addiction to drugs was the purpose of this research. in the other words, it is attempted to answer to essential question what factors are caused to the addiction in the youth? to reach to answer the above question, it is used mainly from four theoretical perspectives namely anomaly theory, isolationism theory, labeling theory and sutherland learning theory. the independe...

BACKGROUND Preventing injection drug use among vulnerable youth is critical for reducing serious drug-related harms. Addiction treatment is one evidence-based intervention to decrease problematic substance use; however, youth frequently report being unable to access treatment services and the impact of this on drug use trajectories remains largely unexplored. This study examines the relationshi...

BACKGROUND The number of internet users is increasing rapidly and internet addiction among adolescents has become a serious public health problem in Korea. In the light of behavioral addiction, this study was aimed to identify the associations between the risk of internet addiction and other problem behaviors which can lead to addiction, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, drug abuse, ...

Previous research has documented associations of addiction with delinquency and psychological problems. However, few studies have evaluated their influence on adolescent's drug use trajectories. The current study aims to examine the influence of these factors on the recovery trajectories of 199 youths aged 15.6 years on average admitted to inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment centers, f...

These years the pattern of drug addiction among the youth has been changed a lot.  This study focuses on the pattern and the ways of drug uses among the youth in Isfahan and evaluates the practices for controlling and reducing them. It also studies the misuse of drugs in young addicted persons specially those who took part in anonymous group discussion. The sample includes 220 of above menti...

Youth are significant consumers of internet technologies. Sometimes, adolescents directly involved in problematic usage, such as online gambling and pornography. They indirectly exposed to some negative behavior, alcohol drug addiction, social isolation. This study aims identify the relationship between six factors behavior gratification using among 440 Malaysian youth by collecting data via su...

The youth trend factors addiction to drugs was the purpose of this research. In the other words, it is attempted to answer to essential question what factors are caused to the addiction in the youth? To reach to answer the above question, it is used mainly from four theoretical perspectives namely anomaly theory, isolationism theory, labeling theory and Sutherland learning theory. The independe...

this study took an epidemiological approach toward the problem of drug addiction in tehran. the subjects were 300 addicts chosen on the basis of stratified random selection out of the population of 3627 prisoners who were all proven addicts and sentenced to imprisonment by the court in the year 1370. a descriptive survey showed that drug addiction generally, and heroin addiction specifically, i...

BACKGROUND Urban drug "scenes" have been identified as important risk environments that shape the health of street-entrenched youth. New knowledge is needed to inform policy and programing interventions to help reduce youths' drug scene involvement and related health risks. The aim of this study was to identify how young people envisioned exiting a local, inner-city drug scene in Vancouver, Can...