Books

• A Cup of tea with abandoned angels, (The challenge of addicted women treatment in Iran), translator, Alidadi Mohamad Reza, scientific editor, Noori, Roya.  Iran, 2016

Professor Kate Dolan, the book’s author, was involved in harm reduction project in Iran. The lack of gender-based services for women drug user besides complexity of addicted women issues, was the driving force to motivate her to run a woman- only harm reduction center. When she told me about her book and asked if I could help her translate it into Persian so that she could publish it in Iran, I gladly agreed. The story of a female drug user in Iran is told in this book, which is based on the lived experience of a western expert woman. This was one of the amazing experiences that made me more excited about varied perspectives on Iranian women drug users’ conditions because of the dynamic interaction with the author and the translation process.

• The guide book of Addiction Prevention for military services”. The Social welfare Organization of Iran, (2017)

Military service is compulsory in Iran. This stage of life can be so risky for young people therefore it is considered as a transitional period. Loneliness, being away from family, unknown situation besides Strick discipline are risk factors which can act as excuses for using drug. This book is trying to help individuals who are in this period to be able to recognize hard situations and with focusing on resiliency makes an endeavor to empower them.

• Mom, Dad… Look at me. Teb Jamme pub, 2018

Secure communication between parents and children is main key for providing social and mental health of children. The vital cores of this communication are to be heard and seen. Children who be seen and be listened to are able to express their own thoughts and feelings openly and respectively. parents who are not able to see and listen their kids, will ignore their needs unintentionally. In this book, we try to be the language of children to hear them

• Drug use prevention program for industrial areas, Ministry of labor of Iran, 2018

According to the latest national survey in Iran more than 70  percent of those abusing drugs are employed. The most common illicit drugs abused on job in industrial areas has been psychoactive substances. those who abuse stimulant or opioids drugs might qualify as high-functioning or are able to be more professional success. However, increasing the number of drug user in workplace cause damage across the country.

This book has been provided with supporting of Ministry of Labor to address substance abuse issues in industrial areas in Iran.

• Delivery drug use prevention services in workplaces, Ministry of labor of Iran, 2018

workplace prevention education can be a vital strategy to address drug abuse on job. Regarding economic crisis, our current drug abuse prevention services should consider workplace as a crucial risky environment which need to be empowered. This book has been supported by Ministry of Labor to build and enhance prevention measures in workplaces.    

• Drug use prevention in workplace; Does addiction Threaten me? ministry of labor of Iran, 2019

Drug abuse by employee cause several hardships for economy from lost productivity, injuries and an increase in health insurance claims. People who abuse drug in workplace are far less productive and are more likely to injure themselves or others. As beliefs play an important role in decision-making, so correcting beliefs can be a great help in making right decisions. To mostly using drug can be efficient for adapting to hard conditions, hence, such strong myth will affect the growth of users across societies. In this book, I have focused on such beliefs which act as trigger to choose drug using as a functional solution.   

• Empowering of people in recovery from addiction: key concepts and implementing consideration for policy- makers, service providers and civil society activists. Avaj publication, Iran, 2021

The most important gap in addiction treatment is recovery which needs to enhance and strengthen. Treatment of chronic disease like addiction involves changing rooted behaviors, recovery requires a total lifestyle change. There are main stages of change in addiction recovery: precontemplation. Contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance. People go between stages, forward and backwards, however observing the of change helps to visualize how change occurs as well as addictive behavior can be treated. As policy making based on reality can be efficient in addressing social problems, in this book well-known experts of addiction in Iran gathered together to signify key concepts of recovery in terms of implementing for policy makers.

• “Drug use prevention packages for children in primary school and for their parent“. (4 books for children, 4 books for family) UNISEF& Drug Control Head Quarter of Iran, Ministry of Education ,2018-2019

There is abundant research in human development, sociology and psychology has demonstrated that early childhood in people’s lives affect forming future decisions and life events. Individuals who use drug start during adolescence or young adulthood, but the key point is the ground which be provided for drug use earlier by conditions which influence people during childhood. After years that I have been working in this field I have realized that prevention is far more effective and the most important levels of drug abuse prevention is childhood. In this book with concentration on Philosophy for Children approach I have tried to transfer vital skills through stories which will be ended with questions, as well as the books which have been prepared for parents tend to enhance the concepts in parallel. Efforts to empower children can be more effective to achieve healthy and sustainable world.

• The guide book of Addiction Prevention in Work places for Employers. The Social welfare Organisation of Iran, (2017)

• Educational Drug use prevention package for at risk families (workplace), The Ministry of labor and welfare, Ministry of Health and Drug Control Head Quarter of Iran,2018.

• Qualitative and quantitative interdisciplinary methods for research on Addiction and other social problems and deviances,

Rafiey, Hassan, Sajaadi, Homaira., Narenjiha, Hooman., Noori, Roya., Farhadi.MohamedHassan., Nourouzi, Saied., Shirin Bayan, Paymaneh .“
The center of substance use and dependency researches, University of rehabilitation and Welfare sciences, Danjeh pub, Tehran, Iran (2009)

• Rapid situation assessment of substance abue in Iran

Narenjiha, Hooman., Rafiey, Hassan., Noori, Roya., Baghestani, Ahmad, Reza., Ghafori, Bahareh., Solaimaninia, Laila.,Shirin Bayan,Paymaaneh.,Farhadi,Mohamad Hasan.
University of Rehabilitation and Welfare Sciences, Danjeh pub. Tehran, Iran. 2010”.