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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]

Addiction and Health, 2022
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, Lateef Olutoyin Oluwole, Banji Ferdinand Kumolalo, Mobolaji Usman Dada   +3 more
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Religious Beliefs, Treatment Seeking, and Treatment Completion among Persons with Substance Abuse Problems [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2021
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, Niya Werts, Kimberly Coleman, Mian Hossain   +3 more
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Prevalence of Substance Use among Psychotic Patients and Determining Its Strongest Predictor

Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
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, Peter Higgs, Negar Piri, Ensieh Sadri, Matina Pourghasem, Sanaz Jafarzadeh Fakhari, Mehdi Noroozi, Mojtaba Miladinia, Elaheh Ahounbar, Asaad Sharhani   +9 more
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Prevalence and Impacts of Psychoactive Substance Abuse amongst Undergraduate University Students in Katsina State, Nigeria [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2021
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, Garba M Khalid, Zayyanu Shitu, Umar Idri Ibrahim   +3 more
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Drug abuse and serum nutritional biomarkers: A retrospective cohort study

Revista Española de Nutrición Humana y Dietética, 2021
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, José Alejandro Valdevila Figueira, Rocío Valdevila Santiesteban, Diego Javier Estrella Almeida, Luz Maria Valencia Erazo, Andrea Katherine Orellana Manzano   +5 more
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An Estimation of Drug-Related Deaths in Iran, Using the Capture-Recapture Method (2014-2016) [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2020
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, Mehran Zarghami, Abbas Alipour, Ardeshir Khosravi, Seyed Saeed Hashemi-Nazari, Mehdi Saberi, Mohammad Reza Ghadirzadeh   +6 more
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The Microbiome–Gut–Brain Axis, a Potential Therapeutic Target for Substance-Related Disorders

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
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, Xuan Fu, Xuan Fu, Xuan Fu, Xuan Fu, Xuan Fu, Ti Chen, Jingda Cai, Jingda Cai, Jingda Cai, Jingda Cai, Jingda Cai, Jingda Cai, Bo Liu, Bo Liu, Bo Liu, Bo Liu, Bo Liu, Bo Liu, Yaohui Zeng, Yaohui Zeng, Yaohui Zeng, Yaohui Zeng, Yaohui Zeng, Yaohui Zeng, Xiaojie Zhang, Xiaojie Zhang, Xiaojie Zhang, Xiaojie Zhang, Xiaojie Zhang, Xiaojie Zhang   +30 more
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Comparison of Recovery Capital in Patients with Alcohol and Opioid Dependence – An Exploratory Study [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2022
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, Rakesh Lal, Mahadev Singh Sen, Siddharth Sarkar   +3 more
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The frequency of substance abuse tendency and its related factors among high school students in Divandarreh City, Iran, in year 2018

Chronic Diseases Journal, 2019
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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Rasch model of the GAIN substance problem scale among inpatient and outpatient clients in the city of São Paulo, Brazil

Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2015
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, Márcia Aparecida Ferreira de Oliveira, Ivan Filipe de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Janet C. Titus, Rosana Ribeiro Tarifa, Thais Fernandes Rojas, Paula Hayasi Pinho   +6 more
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