ReviewCurrent opinion in psychiatry2010
Substance abuse among Iranian high school students.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 160 citations in OpenAlex.
- Current and former smokers among adolescents aged 12-17 years in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence of Methamphetamine Abuse in Iranian High School Students.Journal of medicine and lifePooled it
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- Opium Addiction and Coagulation Factors in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Patients: Implications for Thrombosis and Cardiovascular Outcomes.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
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- The effect of virtual drug abuse prevention education on the knowledge and attitude of Iranian street children.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic and psychosocial determinants of substance misuse - a national perspective.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2024Review
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- Children Intoxicated with Psychoactive Substances: The Health Status on Admission to Hospital Based on Medical Records.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the Effects of Opium on the Expression ofBladder cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Effect of selective and family-based prevention on addiction susceptibility, affiliation with deviant peers, risk-taking, and risk and protective factors of substance use in high-risk adolescents: A randomized clinical trial.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- Sex differences in high-risk health behaviors among school-going adolescents in Yazd, Iran; a cross-sectional study.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Addiction and the Risk of Common Bile Duct Stones: A 4-Year Retrospective Population-Based Study in Mashhad, Iran.Addiction & health · 2023Article
- Lifetime alcohol-use prevalence and correlated factors among street children in Iran.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Classification of psychiatric symptoms using deep interaction networks: the CASPIAN-IV study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Opium as a carcinogen: A systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2021Article
- Determinants of Waterpipe Smoking Among Women: A Systematic Review.International journal of preventive medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewIn this study, we reviewed data on drug use among high school students in Iran. RECENT
findingsPublished epidemiological studies in international and domestic journals show that drug use/abuse is a serious mental health problem in Iran. There is cultural support for opium in Iran and also there is cultural tolerance for tobacco smoking, especially as water pipe smoking in Iranian families. Alcohol, opium and cannabis are the most frequently used illicit drugs, but there are new emerging problems with anabolic steroids, ecstasy and stimulant substances, such as crystal methamphetamine. SUMMARY: There is a serious drug abuse problem among Iranian high school students. It could be due to role modeling by parents - mainly fathers - and also cultural tolerance of some substances. Early onset of tobacco smoking, with a daily use rate between 4.4 and 12.8% in high school students, is an important risk factor for other drug abuse problems. Use of all types of drugs, except prescription drugs, is more prevalent among boys. Alcohol is the most frequently abused substance, with a lifetime rate of at least 9.9%. Lifetime rates of opiate use - mostly opium - was between 1.2 and 8.6% in different parts of the country. As drug abuse is a frequent problem among Iranian high school students, it is necessary to design and implement drug prevention programs to protect them. Such programs, including life skills training and drug education, have been operating in recent years for Iranian students from kindergarten to the university level.
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