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Impact of opium dependency on clinical and neuropsychological indices of multiple sclerosis patients

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The aim of this study was to determine the effect of opium on clinical and neuropsychological parameters in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with substance dependency. A cross-sectional study was conducted on MS patients in Rafsanjan, Iran. Forty opium-addict MS patients (10 males and 30 females) aged between 18 and 50 years were compared with 40 MS patients with no addiction. Word-Pair Learning, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test (WCST), Depression, Anxiety, Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), Fatigue, and the Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite (MSFC) were measured and compared in the two groups. The comparison of two groups showed a significant increase trait anxiety (P < 0.001), fatigue (P = 0.009) and significant decrease in the executive function (P = 0.003), MMSE (P = 0.003), and working memory (P < 0.001) in addicted MS. It indicates the better efficiency of processing in the non-addicted MS patients. The MSFC z-score also was significantly higher in the non-addicted group (P < 0.001). The opium addiction has a negative impact on the clinical and neuropsychological outcome in MS patients.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the patients who participated in the study, the study-site personnel, and members of the Special Medical Center in Ali-Ebn-Abitaleb hospital in Rafsanjan, Iran.

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This study was made possible by financial and technical support of the physiology and pharmacology research center of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (grant no: 9/459).

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  1. Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran

    Fatemeh Ayoobi & Amir Moghadam-Ahmadi

  2. Rafsanjan, Iran

    Fatemeh Ayoobi

  3. Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

    Reza Bidaki

  4. Research Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

    Reza Bidaki

  5. Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran

    Ali Shamsizadeh

  6. Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

    Houshang Amiri

  7. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Houshang Amiri

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Ayoobi, F., Bidaki, R., Shamsizadeh, A. et al. Impact of opium dependency on clinical and neuropsychological indices of multiple sclerosis patients. Neurol Sci 40, 2501–2507 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-019-03971-8

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