The Microbiome–Gut–Brain Axis, a Potential Therapeutic Target for Substance-Related Disorders [PDF]
Substance addiction is a complex worldwide public health problem. It endangers both personal life and social stability, causing great loss on economy. Substance-related disorder is considered to be a complicated chronic brain disorder.
Xuan Fu +30 more
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Patterns of Substance Use Disorders and Associated Co-occurring Psychiatric Morbidity among Patients Seen at the Psychiatric Unit of a Tertiary Health Center [PDF]
Background: Understanding the pattern of co-occurring mental illness in patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) is essential in improving the prevention and treatment of substance use-related problems.
Adetunji Obadeji +3 more
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Religious Beliefs, Treatment Seeking, and Treatment Completion among Persons with Substance Abuse Problems [PDF]
Background: Religious beliefs can assist with the success of treatment in persons with substance abuseproblems by providing social support, confidence, and hope.Methods: As such, a secondary analysis using 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ...
Kesha Baptiste-Roberts +3 more
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Prevalence of Substance Use among Psychotic Patients and Determining Its Strongest Predictor
Objective: Although comorbidity of psychotic disorders and substance use can lead to increase in mortality, less is known about the outbreak and predictors.
Seyedeh Bentolhoda Mousavi +9 more
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Prevalence and Impacts of Psychoactive Substance Abuse amongst Undergraduate University Students in Katsina State, Nigeria [PDF]
Background: Drug and substance abuse among university students is of public health concern and is becoming a global threat to the education system. This is more devastating to the academic performance of the addicts.
Yusuf Hassan Wada +3 more
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Drug abuse and serum nutritional biomarkers: A retrospective cohort study
Introduction: Drug abuse is a public health problem around the globe. Its implications in human health are harmful, compromising nutritional status.
Alfonso Daniel Silva Ochoa +5 more
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An Estimation of Drug-Related Deaths in Iran, Using the Capture-Recapture Method (2014-2016) [PDF]
Background: The Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) and the Legal Medicine Organization(LMO) are the 2 death registration systems in Iran for registering drug-related deaths. The aim of the presentstudy was to assess the number of undercount
Masoudeh Babakhanian +6 more
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Comparison of Recovery Capital in Patients with Alcohol and Opioid Dependence – An Exploratory Study [PDF]
Background: Recovery capital helps in the assessment of the personal strengths and challenges that exist in an individual with substance use which may have an impact on recovery process.
Apinderjit Kaur +3 more
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BACKGROUND: Adolescence is the most risky part of life for beginning of substance abuse. Substance use in adolescence can affect the rest of the person's life in addition to his youth. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of substance
Pooya Valizadeh-Ardalan
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Introduction: This study used the Rasch model to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Substance Problem Scale (SPS) of the “Global Appraisal of Individual Needs - Initial” for use in Brazil.
Heloísa Garcia Claro +6 more
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