the prevalence rate of comorbidities (psychiatric disorders, liver and neuromuscular pains diseases) in patients with substance abuse referred to borzouyeh clinic in 2010-2016

Background: addiction is considered as a social disease causes economic loss in family shared financial resources, increase in health care costs, and sexual dysfunctions in sexual relations. due to the high prevalence rate and reduced age of addiction beginning, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence rate of comorbidities (psychiatric disorders, liver and neuromuscular diseases) in patients with substance abuse problems.methods and material: in this descriptive study, 200 drug abusers referred to borzouyeh clinic in tehran, iran were selected by convenience sampling method. data were collected with the help of a questionnaire, liver function tests, and clinical records of the patients during 2010-2016. data were analyzed through the analysis of chi-square test at the significance level of p < .05.results: data analysis was performed using chi-square test in spss software version 23. the results showed that there was a significant relationship between addiction and liver diseases, psychiatric disorders, and neuromuscular pains (p < .05). according to the results, 44.9% of the patients consuming crack had psychiatric disorders, and also 49.1% of the patients consuming opium had liver diseases. also, neuromuscular pains were found in drug users (opium, sap, heroin and crack) and not found in hallucinogenic and stimulant drug users.conclusions: the correlations between opium and liver diseases, drug users and neuromuscular pains, and also crack using and psychiatric disorders were determined.