Objective: Despite the fact that a practical definition of addiction recovery is necessary to
conduct an appropriate intervention and research, this concept is still vague and there is no …

Backgrounds and aims Iran has 2.1 and 1.8% of its 15–64‐year‐old population living with
illicit substance and opioid use disorders, respectively. To address these problems, Iran has …

Aims In I ran, injecting drug users have been recognized as a high‐risk group for HIV/AIDS
for years. However, evidence of HIV epidemics in non‐injecting drug users (non‐IDUs) has …

Aims: Addiction science has made great progress in the past decades. We conducted a
scientometric study in order to quantify the number of publications and the growth rate …

Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study that was performed on 306 patients in the
city of Marand. The stratified sampling method was used. After collecting the questionnaire …

1Health Education & Promotion, Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center,
Kermanshah, University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 2Health Education & …

Results Finding has shown that 97.5% were male. The average age of subjects was
38.21±10.52. Most consumable drug in these people was opium (50.6%) and the main way …

Background This study was to determine common methods to treat addiction used by
patients checked into Outpatient Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinics in Tehran. Methods …

Substance/alcohol abuse is an important public health threat in most countries. Social
stigmatization and legal restrictions prevent accurate and direct estimate of prevalence of …

Background The dramatic increase in substance use among women and the low rate of
therapeutic success highlight the need for studying relapse-induced factors. This study …