Gender differences strongly affect heroin addiction, from risk factors to patterns of consumption, access to treatments, and outcomes. To investigate gender differences in the VEdeTTE cohort of heroin addicts. VEdeTTE is a cohort of 10,454 heroin users enrolled between 1998 and 2001 in 115 public drug treatment centres in Italy. Clinical and personal information were collected at intake through a
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CONCLUSIONS: Sociocultural issues related to Brazilian students, the application context, and the structure of the original questionnaire contributed to the unsatisfactory results of the transcultural adaptation process. The results further highlighted the challenge of adapt questionnaires investigating sensitive issues in an age group particularly influenced by educational factors, especially whe
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The aim of this study is to evaluate whether there is a difference in the identified prevalence between the assessment of symptoms of sexual dysfunction in female drug users using a standardized scale and by means of a nonstandardized set of questions about sexual dysfunctions. A cross-sectional study was conducted with two groups of substance-dependent women using the Drug Abuse Screening Test,
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CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest resilience interacts with stress and negative emotions to affect the risk of tobacco use and nicotine dependence among Chinese adults. Further research with longitudinal data is needed to verify the findings of this study and to estimate the effect size of resilience in tobacco intervention and cessation programs.
PMID: 26894428 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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Conclusions/Importance: The findings suggest that in the studies reviewed people’s motivation for substance use was embedded in social and psychological contexts. It indicated that substance use could provide perceived benefits such as mediating the impact of mental health stigma, enabling the development of alternative identities, increasing their sense of power and providing opportunities for so
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