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Liu S, Wan J, Liang Q, Tian Y, Fan F, Chen J, Fu F, Zhu R, Wei D, Li Y, Tang S, Wang D, Cui L, Zhang X. Obsessive‐compulsive disorder in Chinese methamphetamine patients: Prevalence, demographics, and clinical characteristics. Am J Addict 2022; 32:263-267. [PMID: 36504235 DOI: 10.1111/ajad.13367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Methamphetamine (MA) is one of the most common addictive substances and has become the second most commonly used drug worldwide. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been shown to influence the effectiveness of addiction treatment, and there may be overlapping neurobiological mechanisms between OCD and addiction. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and clinical correlates of OCD among MA patients. METHODS A total of 457 MA patients were recruited, and clinical and demographic data were collected. The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale was utilized for OCD symptoms, and the Obsessive-Compulsive Drug Use Scale was used for MA craving. RESULTS The prevalence of OCD among MA patients was 7.7%. Compared to those patients without OCD, patients with OCD had a longer length of abstinence and higher OCDUS frequency of craving subscale and total scores. Multiple regression showed that longer length of abstinence and higher MA carving were independently associated with OCD in MA patients. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Chinese Han MA patients have a high prevalence of OCD. Some clinical parameters may be associated with OCD in MA patients. SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE This is the first study to examine the prevalence, sociodemographic and clinical correlates of OCD in MA patients in a Chinese Han population.
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- Siying Liu
- School of Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology Capital Normal University Beijing China
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- School of Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology Capital Normal University Beijing China
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- School of Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology Capital Normal University Beijing China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Department of Psychology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Department of Health Xin Hua Drug Rehabilitation Center Mianyang Sichuan China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Department of Psychology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Department of Health Xin Hua Drug Rehabilitation Center Mianyang Sichuan China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Department of Psychology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Department of Health Xin Hua Drug Rehabilitation Center Mianyang Sichuan China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Department of Psychology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Department of Health Xin Hua Drug Rehabilitation Center Mianyang Sichuan China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Department of Psychology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- School of Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology Capital Normal University Beijing China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
- Department of Psychology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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Brooks S, Burch K, Maiorana S, Cocolas E, Schioth H, Nilsson E, Kamaloodien K, Stein D. Psychological intervention with working memory training increases basal ganglia volume: A VBM study of inpatient treatment for methamphetamine use. Neuroimage Clin 2016; 12:478-91. [PMID: 27625988 PMCID: PMC5011179 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Revised: 08/15/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Protracted methamphetamine (MA) use is associated with decreased control over drug craving and altered brain volume in the frontostriatal network. However, the nature of volumetric changes following a course of psychological intervention for MA use is not yet known. METHODS 66 males (41 MA patients, 25 healthy controls, HC) between the ages of 18-50 were recruited, the MA patients from new admissions to an in-patient drug rehabilitation centre and the HC via public advertisement, both in Cape Town, South Africa. 17 MA patients received 4 weeks of treatment as usual (TAU), and 24 MA patients completed TAU plus daily 30-minute cognitive training (CT) using an N-back working memory task. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at baseline and 4-week follow-up was acquired and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used for analysis. RESULTS TAU was associated with larger bilateral striatum (caudate/putamen) volume, whereas CT was associated with more widespread increases of the bilateral basal ganglia (incorporating the amygdala and hippocampus) and reduced bilateral cerebellum volume coinciding with improvements in impulsivity scores. CONCLUSIONS While psychological intervention is associated with larger volume in mesolimbic reward regions, the utilisation of additional working memory training as an adjunct to treatment may further normalize frontostriatal structure and function.
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- S.J. Brooks
- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, South Africa
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, South Africa
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- Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, South Africa
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Damghani F, Bigdeli I, Miladi-Gorji H, Fadaei A. Swimming exercise attenuates psychological dependence and voluntary methamphetamine consumption in methamphetamine withdrawn rats. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES 2016; 19:594-600. [PMID: 27482339 PMCID: PMC4951597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the effect of swimming exercise during spontaneous methamphetamine (METH) withdrawal on the anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and voluntary METH consumption in METH-dependent rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male Wistar rats were repeatedly administered with bi-daily doses of METH (2 mg/kg, subcutaneous) over a period of 14 days. Exercised rats were submitted to swimming sessions (45 min/day, five days per week, for 14 days) during spontaneous METH-withdrawal. Then, all animals were tested for the assessment of anxiety by using the elevated plus-maze (EPM), the grooming behaviors (OCD), and depression using forced swimming test (FST) and voluntary METH consumption using a two-bottle choice (TBC) paradigm for the assessment of craving. RESULTS The results showed that the swimmer METH-withdrawn rats exhibited an increase in EPM open arm time and entries and a reduction of immobility and grooming behaviors compared with the sedentary METH groups. Also, voluntary METH consumption was less in the swimmer METH-withdrawn rats than the sedentary METH groups throughout 5-8 days. CONCLUSION This study showed that regular swimming exercise reduced voluntary METH consumption in animal models of craving by reducing anxiety, OCD, and depression in the METH-withdrawn rats. Thus, physical training may be ameliorating some of the withdrawal behavioral consequences of METH.
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- Fatemeh Damghani
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran
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- Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Laboratory of Animal Addiction Models, Research Center and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran,Corresponding author: Hossein Miladi-Gorji. Laboratory of Animal Addiction Models, Research Center and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran. Fax: +98-23 33354186;
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran
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Brandt CP, Sheppard DP, Zvolensky MJ, Morgan EE, Atkinson JH, Woods SP. Does Age Influence the Frequency of Anxiety Symptoms and Disorders in HIV Disease? JOURNAL OF HIV/AIDS & SOCIAL SERVICES 2016; 15:380-403. [PMID: 28070173 PMCID: PMC5218542 DOI: 10.1080/15381501.2016.1189865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- Charles P Brandt
- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, Texas, 77004, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, Texas, 77004, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, Texas, 77004, United States; Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcomb Blvd. Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, 220 Dickinson Street, Suite B, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California 92103, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, 220 Dickinson Street, Suite B, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California 92103, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, Texas, 77004, United States; Department of Psychiatry, 220 Dickinson Street, Suite B, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California 92103, United States
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The co-occurrence of substance use disorders (SUDs) and anxiety disorders has been now well established. This association is frequent and can be explained by three models: the shared vulnerability factors model, the self-medication model, and the substance-induced model. General population epidemiological studies provide strong evidence of the frequency of the association for the most used substances: tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and to a lesser extent sedatives, opiates, and cocaine. For substances that are less commonly used in the general population, the frequency of the co-occurrence can more precisely be studied in clinical samples. We provide the most recent literature results on the association of SUDs and anxiety, and evidence for one explicative model or the other when available. For substances with sedative properties (alcohol, benzodiazepines, cannabis, opioids), both evidence for a self-medication and for a toxic effect exist. For substances with psychostimulant properties (tobacco, cocaine, and amphetamines), the literature favors the toxic hypothesis to explain the association with anxiety disorders. We give practical steps for the recognition of these dual diagnoses and present therapeutic issues, although the strategies are rarely evidence based.
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Sexual partnership types as determinant of HIV risk in South African MSM: an event-level cluster analysis. AIDS Behav 2013; 17 Suppl 1:S23-32. [PMID: 22956229 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-012-0294-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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While individual determinants of HIV risk among MSM have been widely studied, there is limited understanding of how relational characteristics determine sexual risk. Based on data collected among 300 South African men who have sex with men (MSM) and using cluster analysis, this study developed a typology of four partnership types: the "Race-Economic Similar," "Age-Race-Economic Discordant," "Non-regular Neighbourhood," and "Familiar" partnership types. Support for the meaningfulness of these types was found through associations of these partnership types with participant characteristics and characteristics of the last anal sex event. Furthermore, in a multivariate analysis, only partnership type independently predicted whether the last anal sex event was unprotected. Findings of the study illustrate the importance of taking into account the relational context in understanding unprotected sexual practices and present ways to target intervention efforts as well as identify relationship specific determinants of unprotected sex.
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Pellowski JA, Kalichman SC, Matthews KA, Adler N. A pandemic of the poor: social disadvantage and the U.S. HIV epidemic. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 2013; 68:197-209. [PMID: 23688088 PMCID: PMC3700367 DOI: 10.1037/a0032694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 300] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic has evolved over the past 30 years and is now concentrated in socially marginalized and disenfranchised communities. The health disparities in this epidemic are striking, with most HIV infections occurring in sexual minorities and communities of color. While widely recognized, the health disparities in HIV and AIDS are not often discussed. In this article, we examine the factors underlying health disparities in the U.S. HIV epidemic. We first discuss the interlocking relationships between biological, social, and behavioral factors that drive HIV/AIDS epidemics. Guided by a well-established conceptual model of health disparities, we then describe the social positions of those most affected by HIV and AIDS, particularly racial and gender groups. Structural and economic conditions-including environmental resources, constraints, access to care, and psychosocial influences-are examined in relation to HIV disease trajectories. Greater attention to contextual factors and comorbidities is needed to reduce the health disparities in HIV/AIDS.
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