{"title":"Differential Effects of Addictive Drugs on Sleep and Sleep Stages.","authors":"Harold W Gordon","doi":"10.33140/JAR.03.02.01","DOIUrl":"10.33140/JAR.03.02.01","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Addictive drugs affect sleep both in individuals currently using drugs and in individuals who have withdrawn from drugs. In fact, sleep disturbances are reported by individuals for some drugs long after they have quit taking them and after other withdrawal symptoms have subsided. This suggests that addictive drugs and sleep share some of the same neurobiological mechanisms. Sleep researchers may be studying the neurobiology of addictive drugs without knowing it. The purpose of this survey is to summarize the effects that addictive drugs have on sleep and stages of sleep. We demonstrate that different addictive drugs have differential effects on disturbance of sleep, in general, and on specific stages of sleep either while the drug is on board or after withdrawal. Accordingly, these results are intended to encourage sleep researchers to use their knowledge of sleep mechanisms to offer researchers of addictive drugs new insights of how addictive drugs might affect brain mechanisms. Also, these results should alert researchers of addiction that treatment for drug effects needs to consider treatment for sleep disturbances as well. Treatment for addiction is rarely accompanied by treatment for sleep disturbances even though this survey demonstrates they are clearly related.</p>","PeriodicalId":92800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of addiction research (OPAST Group)","volume":"3 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688758/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42401871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pattern of Psychiatric Morbidity and Substance Abuse among Iraqi Prisoners","authors":"S. Al-Abbudi","doi":"10.33140/jar.03.01.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33140/jar.03.01.1","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Mental disorders and substance abuse are one of the most frequent disorders in the world. Mental health of prisoner’s is a major issue of public health. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study carried at 3 prisons in Baghdad. All prisoners, both awaiting trial and sentenced prisoners, both gender were included, using stratified random sampling technique. Basic sociodemographic variables were collected using aninformation list filled during interview. Prisoners’ mental state was checked by self-reporting questionnaires scale (SRQ-20). Positive SRQ-20 test prisoners were selected for administration of the DSM-IV Structured Interview (SCID) by consultant psychiatrist. Results: A total of 1447 prisoners were approached; 70% responded; Mean age 33.9±7.17 years. About 50% of prisoners stay in prison between 5-10 years. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity (positive SRQ-20 responses) was 749 (73.9%). Generalized anxiety disorder was 7.2% of psychiatric morbidity, obsessive compulsive disorder 1.5%, panic disorder 4.8%, substance abuse 50.1%, depression 11.9%, psychosis 9.2%, schizophrenia 3.2%, posttraumatic stress disorder 1.6%, and personality disorder 10.5%. Conclusion: this study shows high psychiatric morbidity and substance abuse among Iraqi prisoners that require furtherattention to enhance mental health and concentrated on the role of mental health workers for early detection and proper treatment of psychiatric disorders in prison.","PeriodicalId":92800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of addiction research (OPAST Group)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69508523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Parkinson’s Disease and Chronic Stroke on Simple Multitasking Abilities","authors":"","doi":"10.33140/jar/02/02/00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33140/jar/02/02/00007","url":null,"abstract":"It is hypothesised that Parkinson’s disease and chronic strokes may interfere with patient’s ability to multitask. The aim of the study is to explore the impact of chronic stroke or Parkinson’s on simple multitasking abilities. Both diseases cause the inability to perform simple activities such as walking and mental mathematics simultaneously. In a controlled sample of 15 patients of Indian origin with either chronic stroke or Parkinson’s disease it was observed that there was a significant deterioration in the ability to multitask (increase in time taken to multitask between Timed up and Go (TUG) and Dual Timed up and Go (Dual TUG) versus a normal control group). The study found that the average increase in time required to complete the tests was 49% (for chronic stroke patients) and 36 % (for patients with Parkinson’s disease) as compared to a normal baseline of less than 10%. In patients with chronic stroke or Parkinson’s disease, special attention must be paid to these impairments as they significantly affect independent living.","PeriodicalId":92800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of addiction research (OPAST Group)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42051936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal and financial issues for dementia patients","authors":"S. Chawla","doi":"10.4172/2329-6895-c6-040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2329-6895-c6-040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of addiction research (OPAST Group)","volume":"06 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70268022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hidden Relation, Clues of Autism, ADHD and Depression Which Reveals the\u0000Effective Cause and Cure","authors":"","doi":"10.33140/jar/02/02/00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33140/jar/02/02/00005","url":null,"abstract":"Observing the autistic kids: Autistic kids lack most social skills, communicating, persuading skills; the language is\u0000the product of living environment so kids poor in using native language make us think of the quality and quantity\u0000of connection to the living environment. People speak their native language naturally without much thinking, but\u0000autistic cannot speak well, when they have wants or needs, they cannot express it in understandable way to the\u0000adults so that they cannot get satisfied. Not satisfying the needs make them anger or stress. In the stress state, there\u0000are mainly three hormones operate in body to make the body prepare for fight or flight. These three hormones are:\u0000Epinephrine, nor epinephrine, and cortisones. These hormones will activate many other changing in body and other\u0000hormones so that the body is ready for survival functions. Kids in stress tend to make other stress unconsciously in the\u0000downtrend spirals of stress. The more stress kids get, the poorer their learning and the more they will get low level\u0000of social skills. The unsatisfied living environment may make autistic have strange behaviors can be explained by\u0000conditioned response. They have strange responses to normal things, events. And these responses can be summarized\u0000into “Fight” or “Flight” or “Indifference”; these responses tell us about the state of mind of the autistic kids. And\u0000the pattern of responses, the fluctuation of specific responses to the changing in environment will give us clues about\u0000the cause of autism, ADHD and the prediction and the effective intervention of autism and ADHD.","PeriodicalId":92800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of addiction research (OPAST Group)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46919024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}