During the course of this search man has extracted opium from poppy plant, cocaine from the leaves of coca bush, and cannabis from the hemp plant. Initially the use of these was only for the purpose of relieving the physical and mental capabilities, and for medicinal and surgical purpose. But...

Background: Nowadays Bulgarian population is facing a number of challenges: economic crisis, demographic ageing and bad general health status. The global burden of mental disorders can be assessed in four ways: prevalence, burden, inequities in the distribution and their impact on other health...

Drug use is one of the pressing issues facing humanity since time immemorial. Ground reality exhibits that there are linear association of drug use with violence, corruption, incest and numerous other immoral activities. Towards drugs addiction the policy approach of contemporary science of...

The objectives of this study are to find; 1) the power and knowledge that create the myth of drug addictions, 2) the illusive mythology, and 3) the approaches in which the myth of drug addictions can be dismantled using the critical discourse analysis or CDA. This work reflects the use of...

This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...