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In the course of serological surveys to detect transmitted parenterally by viral infections (hepatitis C and B, HIV), it was revealed that 95% of patients were infected with hepatitis C and / or B, which suggests that the mass distribution mentioned diseases among the troops, "parenteral" drug addicts and interpret hepatitis, transmitted by perenteralnym as obligate feature of the clinical material of inexpedient exclusion of infected persons from the experimental and control groups. Human immunodeficiency virus were infected 16 patients (32%) of persons surveyed, they were excluded from the survey. An open, randomized study included 37 juvenile male heroin addicts, 14 to 18 years, mean age - 16.75 years. All patients were diagnosed with opium (heroin) addiction formed with withdrawal symptoms. The average period of systematic use of heroin was 1.1 years (with a term consumption of about 1 year was 14 patients per year or more - 23 patients) should be noted that most patients had received terms of systematic use of heroin between 9 months and up to 2 years , patients with initial forms of dependency were introduced in small quantities, which requires a set of representative groups of a few more times. All patients practiced mostly intravenous heroin solution, the multiplicity of injections ranged from 1 to 4 a day. Daily amount of heroin injected ranged from 0.1 to 0.6 was excluded from the study patients with acute medical illness, clinically apparent neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders that go beyond the frontier of psychiatry, as well as intolerance of certain drugs. All patients were examined by a physician and a neurologist to exclude neurological disorders. Personality types on patients were distributed according to the table. 1. Table 1. Distribution of patients according to type of premorbid personality. Personality type

How to resist alcohol cravings

Sergey Sokolovsky psychotherapist, PhD, Medical and Environmental Association''Biotech'', Pyatigorsk. e-mail: PashaPashin317@hotmail.com http://www.bioteh-main.narod.ru Omne malum nascens facile Oprimitur all evil is easy to nip in the bud How many millions of people in Russia, and indeed throughout the world, waking up with a terrible hangover, Hundreds and hundreds of times gave a promise not to drink more,''but it promised three years of waiting ...''our heroic promises and asseveration family grabbed almost a week and more often - even less. Yet it was evening, and despite our request, a powerful unseen force dragging us along the way to the store, making with their own sense of humiliation and guilt, remembering the new alcohol binge only in the morning with a guilty look in his eyes close people. What the hell? Am I miserable creature, unable to say to himself:''no?''- We speculated depressed and grief over the other? Why can not I totally oppose it? By not finding the strength to resist a self-powered, blatantly lied to friends, hiding and concealing hundreds of sophisticated methods of their craving for alcohol, as it can do just yearning for alcoholic buzz, a sick man.