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Iran's Activities on Prevention, Treatment and Harm Reduction of Drug Abuse
Mohammad Bagher Saberi Zafarghandi1, Mohsen Jadidi2, Narjes Khalili3
1Department of Addiction, Mental Health Research Center, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
Context:
In the present review study, authors investigated Iran's activities regarding prevention, abuse and harm reduction of drugs nationwide. The issue appears to be important in order to show the trend of activities in the country.
Evidence Acquisition:
In this report, authors gathered data from different Farsi/English peer review journals issued both in printed and online versions. These journals have been indexed in PubMed, ISI, ISC, SID, Magiran, UN, etc. These are among the most referred and cited databases.
Results:
Summarizing the data led to three distinguished sections: 1) drug supply reduction activities; 2) drug demand reduction activities; 3) harm reduction activities.
Conclusions:
As the results showed, the trend of activities was encouraging and some additional activities could be included to future programs relying on early-onset preventions.
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