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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Schizophrenia and the use of alcohol and other drugs: epidemiological profile [PDF]
This study aimed at characterizing the social demographic and clinical profile of patients with schizophrenia and alcohol and other drugs addiction of a Center of Psychosocial Attention III of the Central-Western region of the State of Minas Gerais ...
Jássia Lopes Freitas da Silveira+4 more
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Socio-demographic and clinical profile of elderly people with depression and the use of psychoactive drugs [PDF]
Objective: to know the socio-demographic and clinical profile of elderly patients with depressive disorders and the use of psychoactive drugs. Methods: it is a retrospective epidemiological study that analyzed 218 medical records of elderly patients in a
Luiza Cantão+5 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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DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorders: recommendations and rationale. [PDF]
Since DSM-IV was published in 1994, its approach to substance use disorders has come under scrutiny. Strengths were identified (notably, reliability and validity of dependence), but concerns have also arisen.
Auriacombe, Marc+11 more
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