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An Epidemiological Study Of Tramadol Hcl Dependence In An Outpatient Addiction Clinic At Heliopolis Psychiatric Hospital, Amro S. Shalaby, Lamia G. El Hamrawy, Mohamed S. El Bahy, Mohammad M. Abd Allah, Nabil R. Mohamed
An Epidemiological Study Of Tramadol Hcl Dependence In An Outpatient Addiction Clinic At Heliopolis Psychiatric Hospital, Amro S. Shalaby, Lamia G. El Hamrawy, Mohamed S. El Bahy, Mohammad M. Abd Allah, Nabil R. Mohamed
Menoufia Medical Journal
Objectives The aim of this study was to detect the prevalence of tramadol HCl dependency among substance abusers, assess the severity of addiction, recognize comorbid psychiatric disorders, and identify risk factors to start tramadol abuse. Background An increasingly alarming phenomenon of tramadol drug abuse has been demonstrated in the Egyptian community. Participants and methods The studied group had 330 Egyptian substance abusers. They were subjected to the following: a semistructured interview sheet, a structured clinical interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I) to diagnose psychiatric disorders, the addiction severity index scale, and urine screening for substance abuse. Results The prevalence of tramadol HCl …
Dual Diagnosis And Psychosocial Correlates In Substance Abuse In Menoufia, Egypt, Afaf Z. Rajab, Lamia G. El Hamrawy, Mohamed S. El Bahy, Mohamed R. Soltan, Nabil R. Mohamed, Samy A. Hammad
Dual Diagnosis And Psychosocial Correlates In Substance Abuse In Menoufia, Egypt, Afaf Z. Rajab, Lamia G. El Hamrawy, Mohamed S. El Bahy, Mohamed R. Soltan, Nabil R. Mohamed, Samy A. Hammad
Menoufia Medical Journal
Objectives To study the comorbid psychiatric disorders among substance abusers in Menoufia and to identify whether there is a correlation between the type of substance and the comorbid disorder that occurred, and also to determine whether there are specific risk factors that can cause this comorbidity. Background A dual diagnosis presents a challenging problem to clinicians as substance use disorders occurring together with mental health disorders represent a major health problem. Participants and methods Study participants comprised 120 Egyptian substance abusers. They were subjected to the following: semistructured interview sheet, Fahmy and El Sherbini Social Classification scale, semistructured clinical interview …