Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to compare of the rate of alexithymia and spiritual intelligence in addicts, addicts under Methadone Treatment, and non-Addicts.Method: A causal-comparative research design was used. The study sample included 30 individuals under Methadone Treatment, 30 drug-dependent Addicted, and 30 non-addicted individuals selected by convenience sampling procedure. Toronto alexithymia scale and King's spiritual intelligence self-report inventory were administered among selected sample.Results: Findings revealed significant differences among addicted individuals and non-addicted adults also among individuals under methadone treatment and non-addicted adults in total alexithymia scores as well as on all three subscale scores. Furthermore, addicted individuals differed from those under methadone treatment in their scores on the subscale pertaining to difficulty in identifying feelings. Results also indicated differences among addicted individuals and those under methadone treatment in total spiritual intelligence and its four component scale scores, while addicted individuals differed from non-addicted individuals in total spiritual intelligence scores and only three of its component scale scores (personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion).Conclusion: Findings of this study indicate the advantages of the ability to control, emotional regulation and spiritual intelligence as a defense against addiction. By development of these characteristics addicts can be helped to gain relief from their addiction.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare agreeableness trait and spiritual health of the addicts living in a community treatment center circuit (TC) and addicts under methadone treatment in Ahvaz.Methods: In this comparative study, the study population consisted of patients referred to outpatient clinics and welfare of people living in boarding centers. A cluster sampling method was used for sample selection. Out of centers, under Behzisti coverage, one community treatment center and 5 outpatient clinics. For addiction treatment were selected randomly. From these centers 100 patient were selected for the study. MANOVA was used for statistical analysis. NEO personality (scale compatibility) and Ellison and Palvtzyn is spiritual health questionnaires were used for data collection.Results: Results show that there are sigfnificant differences in component compatibility and spiritual health mean scores of drug addicts living in community treatment circuits and addicts under methadone treatment (P<0.0001).Conclusion: It seems that living in community treatment centers will tend to increase in their hope and vitality. Living in these centers make them more positive and increase their motivation for treatment contoinuing.

Objective: This study was an attempt to compare cognitive functioning in substance abusers and addicts under methadone treatment with normal individuals.Method: The current study was a causal-comparative one. The statistical population of this research consisted of all male substance abusers who had referred to addiction treatment centers of Khoy city in 2013. The total of 40 addicts under methadone treatment, 40 active drug users, and 40 non-addicts were selected as the participants of this study via convenience sampling method. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and Wechsler Memory Scale were administered to the three groups for data collection purposes.Results: The results showed that the substance abusers’ scores in Wisconsin card sorting test and Wechsler memory scale were significantly different from those of addicts under methadone treatment and normal individuals. In the same way, there was a significant difference between addicts under methadone treatment and normal individuals in terms of cognitive function; however, there was no significant difference between these two groups in terms of perseveration error.Conclusion: It can be concluded that chronic use of psychoactive substances causes damage to multiple brain regions such as prefrontal cortex and hippocampus and, thereby, it leads to cognitive malfunctioning in these areas.

Background & Objectives: The frequent Comorbidity of depression disorder and substance use disorders (SUD) is welldocumented.Metacognitive therapy is designed as a treatment to influence cognitive-attention syndrome, metacognitive processes, knowledge of its stimulating and action on the cognitive subsystem. The aim of present study was to investigate effect of metacognitive therapy on depressed addicts on methadone Maintenance treatment in Mashhad.Methods and materials: Of the 75 addicts receiving methadone the sample was included 24 participants who were assigned by random sampling in experimental (N=12) and control group (N=12). Addicts were completed Beck Depression short Inventory (BDI-13) in the pre-test, post-test. Data were analyzed by the SPSS 16 and presented with covariance (ANCOVA) test. Alpha level less than.05 was considered significance ( p<0.05).Findings: analysis of ANCOVA showed that there are significant differences between experimental and control group based on depression (f=184.8, p<0.001) in post-test stage.Conclusion results suggest that metacognitive therapy could be a short and effective treatment. Thus the thoughts and feelings without judgment and evaluation are done with the help of mental imagery. Additionally it is consistent with a detached mindfulness conceptualization of problematic abuse behavior and further add to our understanding of the role of specific metacognitions and mindfulness across the continuum of Abuse behavior and mood disorders.

Background: Much research has pointed to the effectiveness of individualized schema therapy on early maladaptive schemas of traditional and industrial drug users, but there is a research gap in the methadone treatment group in Birjand. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of group schema therapy on early maladaptive schemas of traditional and industrial drug addicts in Birjand city. Method: Patients were treated at the Omide Farda Addiction Treatment Center. Among the patients present at the center, 45 met the inclusion criteria and were selected based on the available sample and replaced in three groups, Traditional drug users (n = 15), industrial drug users (n = 15) and control group (n = 15). The tools for collecting this data were Yang Short Form (1994) early maladaptive schema questionnaire. Data were analyzed using covariance analysis Experimental groups received 8 sessions of Schema Therapy training from Gholamrezaie and Tehranchi Therapy Scheme (2016) and Tehranchi (2016). Results: The results showed that the effect of group schema therapy on the improvement of early maladaptive schemas was significant (p<0/05). Conclusions: Using group schema therapy can improve the early maladaptive schemas of traditional and industrial methadone drug users.

Objective: This study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy on improvement of quality of life in opiate patients under methadone maintenance treatment.Method: This was a semi experimental study using control group also pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Thirty six patients on MMT were selected between the entire opiate addicts referred to Iranian national center for addiction studies within judgmental sampling and were randomly assigned into experimental and control groups. They were all administered the WHOQOL-BREF. In experimental group, cognitive behavior group therapy was performed in 8 sessions and the control group was registered in the waiting list for the CBGT.Findings: Data analysis revealed that the mean WHOQOL-BREF score in the experimental group had significant higher increase when compared with that of the control group. But it wasn’t significant in follow up.Conclusion: Results demonstrated the effectiveness of cognitive–behavior group therapy on improvement of quality of life of opiate addicts on MMT in short term but didn’t seem to be effective in long term.