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Abstract
Epilepsy is a chronic disorder that causes unprovoked, recurrent seizures. And has a high prevalence in the population worldwide including Egypt. Also it has a psychological impact on the patients.
As well with increasing the prevalence of the psychiatric disorders and substance use in Egypt, Interference between the diseases was expected, especially because of self‐medication hypothesis to escape stigma and stress or even using psychotropic drugs or illegal substance that have neurological influences or causing seizure even within usage or Abstinence.
To date, a small number of studies have examined the prevalence of substance use among epileptic patients. Two of these studies identified prevalence of substance use among epileptic patients, and mixed results may be attributable, at least in part, to the variable age ranges, test batteries, epilepsy and substance use characteristics across studies.
In the present study, the aim was to determine the prevalence of substance abuse among a sample of epileptic patients attending Alexandria University outpatient clinics.
The study was conducted upon 200 epileptic patients (100 males and 100 females patients). An informed consent was taken from every patient before the beginning of the study after explaining the nature of the research.
The participants in the present study were epileptic patients between the age group (18-60) years old excluding patients with epileptic seizures due organic causes such as cerebral palsy or brain tumor, psychogenic seizures or syncope.