objectives the objective of this study was to assess the effects of cognitive-behavioral training on increasing self-concept and the attitude style toward narcotic drugs. background the existing studies have indicated that persons with positive attitude and believe to narcotics have more addiction than those with negative or natural attitudes. the aim of the present study was to specify the eff...

In the description of parental psychopathology in narcotic dependence, emphasis has hitherto largely lain on the identification of addictogenic characteristics rather than on the identification of psychological distress. In an attempt to remedy the situation, we compared the parents of 21 male narcotic dependant patients with an equal number of matched controls. Using the General Health Questio...

stimuli. Access to and copulation with the females was accompanied by becoming the alpha, or dominant, male in a new group. It is possible that the latter experience isa provocative stimulus to increased testosterone secretion, along with frequent sexual activity. Studies are needed to clarify this issue. With more indirect techniques of assessing testosterone secretion, such as measurement of ...

stimuli. Access to and copulation with the females was accompanied by becoming the alpha, or dominant, male in a new group. It is possible that the latter experience isa provocative stimulus to increased testosterone secretion, along with frequent sexual activity. Studies are needed to clarify this issue. With more indirect techniques of assessing testosterone secretion, such as measurement of ...

recent studies on rodents showed successful treatment outcomes for cocaine dependence by using buprenorphine and naltrexone without the risk of dependence on them. such findings could provide a new hope on treatment of cocaine, methamphetamine or other stimulants dependence. the idea of using these medicines was formed once dr. nora volkow (director of nation institute for drug abuse) based on ...

Using a food-reinforced two-lever operant procedure, rats were trained to discriminate 0.04 mg/kg fentanyl from saline. At different time intervals after the establishment of discriminative responding, stimulus generalization experiments were performed with equivalent dose ranges of fentanyl (0.0025 to 0.02 mg/kg) and morphine (2.5 to 20 mg/kg). It was found that the ED50 values of both compoun...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained surgical registry. OBJECTIVE To compare postoperative narcotic consumption between multimodal analgesia (MMA) and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) after an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Studies suggest that a multimodal approach to pain management leads to decreased pain and morp...