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Pubertal Maturation Compression and Behavioral Impulsivity Among Boys at Increased Risk for Substance Use
Conclusions: Outcomes are consistent within the Maturation Compression Hypothesis and social neuroscience models of adolescent developmental risk. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - May 28, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Parenting Styles and Psychological Correlates in a Sample of Egyptian Adolescents With Substance-use Disorders
Objectives: To study parenting styles and psychological correlates among a group of Egyptian adolescents with substance-use disorder. Materials and Methods: A case-control study conducted at the Adolescents’ substance abuse outpatient clinic, Helwan Psychiatric Hospital. The case group of 81 male adolescents, age range 12 to 18 years, with substance-use disorders matched with the control group of 80 volunteer male adolescents who had never used drugs. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and th...
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - May 28, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Acute Kidney Injury Associated With Alcohol and Cocaine Abuse: A Case Report
We describe a case history of a 41-year-old man with a history of bipolar disorder and alcohol and cocaine use disorder admitted for alcohol detoxification. Soon after admission the patient developed acute kidney injury, presumably secondary to substance-induced (alcohol and cocaine coabuse) rhabdomyolysis. The patient developed acute renal failure that required admission to acute medical care. His renal failure remitted without dialyses and the patient was discharged to outpatient care. Discussion: Cocaine and alcohol can cause muscle injury. Rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury has also been described with a number of...
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - May 28, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

Frequency and Factors Associated With Occurrence of Seizures in Patients With Tramadol Abuse: An Upper Egyptian Experience
Conclusions: The study shows that frequency of seizure occurrence among the studied Egyptian tramadol abusers is high (52.4%) and tramadol-induced seizures is dose-dependent. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - March 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Past-month Pain and Cognitive-affective Smoking Processes Among Daily Smokers
Conclusions: The present study serves as an initial investigation into the nature of current levels of pain in relation to a variety of cognitive-affective aspects of smoking. Clinical strategies that modify the pain experience may enhance motivation to quit and facilitate success in quitting. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - March 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

One Week of Naltrexone Treatment Does Not Reduce Impulsivity During Inpatient Treatment of Alcohol-dependent Patients: An Open-label Study
Conclusion: These results indicate that alcohol-dependent subjects were more impulsive, however, NTX does not seem to reduce alcohol intake by modulating impulsivity. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - March 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Family Functioning as a Mediator of Relations Between Family History of Substance Use Disorder and Impulsivity
Conclusions: These results indicate that higher levels of impulsivity in FH+ children are due in part to worse FF. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - March 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Psychic Structure of Opioid Addiction: Impact of Lifetime Psychiatric Problems on SCL-90-based Psychopathologic Dimensions in Heroin-dependent Patients
Conclusions: On the basis of our results, the SCL-90-defined structure of opioid addiction may be considered to be only partly dependent on the presence of a “psychiatric” condition. This observation adds to the previous ones that go to show the stability of the above aggregations of symptoms, irrespectively of other demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as active involvement with heroin abuse or the kind of treatment chosen. When the available evidence is considered as a whole, it seems to support the trait-dependent, rather than state-dependent, nature of the proposed factorial dimensions of the psychopat...
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - March 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Everyday Problems With Executive Dysfunction and Impulsivity in Adults Recovering From Methamphetamine Addiction
Objectives: Compared with nonaddicted controls (CTLs), adults in remission from methamphetamine addiction (MA-REM) evidence impairments on objective measures of executive functioning and impulsivity. Methods: To evaluate the impact of these impairments in MA-REM adults, demographically matched groups (MA-REM, n=30; CTLs, n=24) completed objective and self-report measures of executive functioning and impulsivity. Results: MA-REM adults demonstrated significantly (P (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - March 1, 2016 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Aggression as a Predictor of Early Substance Use Initiation Among Youth With Family Histories of Substance Use Disorders
Discussion: Even in the context of family history of substance use disorder, individual differences in childhood aggression and thought problems confer increased risk for early substance use initiation. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - December 1, 2015 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Pharmacotherapy of Gambling
Pathologic gambling (PG) is an impulse control disorder according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that bridges impulsive, compulsive, and addictive behaviors. This review article discusses the pharmacotherapy of gambling between the age groups of 16 and 65. PG is a relatively common disorder, but there is only limited information available regarding the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy for this illness. The role and effectiveness of various medications including antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, opioid antagonists, and other pharmacological agents are reviewed in this article. Neurobiological resea...
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - December 1, 2015 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Recruitment Techniques for Alcohol Pharmacotherapy Clinical Trials: A Cost-benefit Analysis
Conclusions: Recruitment in AUD RCTs can be successful using diverse advertising methods. The present analyses favored use of print ads as most cost-effective. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - December 1, 2015 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Smoking and Cellular Telephone Use Among Pregnant Women Seeking Prenatal Care: Opportunities for Intervention
Conclusions: These data support the feasibility of conducting a pharmacotherapy smoking cessation trial and using text messaging to enhance medication adherence in a predominantly minority population of pregnant smokers. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - December 1, 2015 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Sodium Oxybate as Off-label Treatment for Anxiety Disorder: Successful Outcome in a Low-energy Anxious Resistant Patient
We present a case in which a Spanish patient affected by resistant anxiety disorder was successfully treated with SO after an unsuccessful treatment with benzodiazepines and antidepressants. Case Presentation: Despite correct benzodiazepine and antidepressant prescriptions, the patient reported a low level of anxiety and energy, as well as sexual side effects and anhedonia, with a reduction in global functioning. We started with a standard treatment for anxiety disorder, but after a few months he reported little improvement in his anxiety level, permanence of side effects, and low energy level. We decided to start an off-l...
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - December 1, 2015 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Disordered Gambling and Health Functioning in Individuals Receiving Disability Benefits
Conclusions: These data indicate that PRDB have a higher rate of disordered gambling and that increased gambling severity is associated with decreased health functioning. Together, this suggests that PRDB may be at increased need of screening for disordered gambling and that disordered gamblers receiving disability benefits may have an increased need for treatments that reduce gambling and its associated problems. (Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment)
Source: Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment - December 1, 2015 Category: Addiction Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research