Research Areas

Priorities Research on Substance Abuse and dependency research center

prevention

1.   Underlying factors and risk of substance use and behavioral addictions

2.   Protective agents against substance use and behavioral addiction 

3.   New methods of substance abuse prevention

4   4.   Prevention programs (school-based, community-oriented, family-focused, work environments and media)

5.   Investigating the effect of social factors affecting addiction

6.  Objectives of resilience processes against risk factors for substance use

7.  Evaluation of the countrys addiction prevention programs

8.  Investigation of theoretical models of addiction (developmental, psychological, social, biological)

Treatment and prevention of recurrence

1.  New methods of psychological therapies (individual, group and family therapy and counseling)

2.  Social interventions (social support treatment methods)

3.  Medical treatments (treatment with agonists, detoxification, hospitalization, community-based therapy, etc.)

4.  Needs assessment of therapists and preparation and compilation of training packages for them

5.  Investigating and determining the causes of recurrence in order to provide treatment models for recurrence prevention

6.  Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of common therapeutic interventions in the country

7.  Process research on the mechanisms of effectiveness of psychological interventions

8.  Therapies based on neuropsychological rehabilitation and brain-based technologies

Injury reduction

1.   Evaluation includes: (Evaluation of achievement of goals, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit)

Assessment 

1.       Monitoring and evaluation of harm reduction programs

2.       Evaluate and monitor the extent of changes in social issues and its relationship with substance use and addiction

3.       The effectiveness of propaganda programs and media campaigns 

4.       against drugs and psychotropic substances

Making tests

1.       Consumption measurement questionnaires

2.       Attitude Assessment Questionnaires

Epidemiology

1.       Recognizing the appearance of substance use

2.       Determining the prevalence of addiction

3.       Epidemiology in a specific group including: (women, students, workplaces of government employees and transportation staff)

4.       Changing the pattern of substance use in different groups of society, especially high-risk groups

5.       Determining the causes of occurrence and deaths due to addiction referred to forensic medicine centers

6.       Monitoring the social determinants of substance use (poverty, illiteracy, migration, social capital inequality, etc.)

7.       Study of the association between addiction and psychiatric disorders

Biological

1.  Investigation of environmental interventions on nervous structures related to substance use and addiction

2.  Investigation of hereditary epidemiology of addiction

3.      
Immediate study of emerging materials and chemical analysis of their compounds in order to prevent the spread and widespread information

4. Investigation of genetic fields and molecular biology of substance use

5. Study of neurological aspects of substance use

6. Study of the basics and neurobiological dimensions of addiction

Futurology

1.       Description and explanation of the future of substance use in terms of prevalence, disease burden and therapeutic interventions