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Exploring the mental status of people with opium and heroin addiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

K.K. Shirazi ,
E. Heydarnia ,
S. Kamalianfard ,
M. Heydarnia ,
M. Fararooie  and
E. Rahimi
K.K. Shirazi
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shiraz, Iran
E. Heydarnia
Affiliation:
Students’ Research Committee, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Shiraz, Iran
S. Kamalianfard
Affiliation:
Students’ Research Committee, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Shiraz, Iran
M. Heydarnia
Affiliation:
Fanoos Addiction Relief Center, Shiraz, Iran
M. Fararooie
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, School of Health, Shiraz, Iran
E. Rahimi
Affiliation:
Valfajr Health Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

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Introduction

Individuals who engage in drugs abusing are more susceptible to a variety of physical, social and psychological health problems.

Objective

This study describes mental disorders of patients with opium and heroin addiction before taking MMT.

Method

Participants included 172 addicts (162 men and 10 women), referring to Fanoos addiction relief center, whose age ranged from 16–66 with mean age of 32.8. All participants were asked to complete a questionnaire about their bad feelings experienced during past month before taking methadone maintenance therapy.

Results

The average age of the first drug abusing was 20.5 with range of 10–60. The most frequent bad feelings that were reported by participants were sensation of anxiety, hopelessness and aloneness. 68.6% of patients had a history of depression, 56.4% were aggressive and 26.3% of them had ideas of suicide.

Conclusions

Exploring of mental status of addict people before taking MMT can be used for evaluation of treatment effects and designing more effective interventions.

Type
P01-104
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 104
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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