Relationships Between Using Other Substances and Socio-Demographic Characteristics in Opiate Dependents
| Autor: | Fatma Mükerrem Güven, Hacer Yalnız, Melike Nebioglu, Omer Gecici |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Ecstasy lcsh:Medicine Heroin polysubstance dependence mental disorders Epidemiology medicine Prevalence Risk factor Psychiatry media_common biology Substance dependence business.industry Addiction lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Polysubstance dependence Cannabis business heroin medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | TAF Preventive Medicine Bulletin, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 35-42 (2013) |
| Popis: | Objective: We aimed to determine the variables that can be a risk factor for addiction like age, gender, education level, school cession, first using age, substance use period, frequency and using other addictive substances among people who have a diagnosis of opiate addiction. Methods: This is a descriptive and cross-sectional study in AMBAUM ( Akdeniz University Alcohol and Substance Dependence Research and Practice Center) between February 1,2010- April30, 2010. 84 inpatient and outpatient patients (60 men, 24 women) between age 14-37, who have a diagnosis of opiate addiction according to DSM IV-TR diagnostic criteria recruited in this study. All participating patients completed a standard questionaire and sociodemographic data form face to face. The results were analyzed with chi-squared test by using SPSS 16 statistics program. Results: In our patients nicotin addiction prevalance is 100%, alcohol using prevalance is 91.7%, cannabis using prevalance 86.9%, ecstasy using prevalance 54.8%, cocain using prevalance 48.8%, polysubstance using prevalance 47.6%, hallucinogen using prevalance 27.4%, addictive medical drug using prevalance 17.9%. Conclusions: This epidemiological study guide us in the monitoring and evalution of the opiate use and prevalance of other substance use with opiate addiction. Keywords: Prevalence, heroin, polysubstance dependence. [TAF Prev Med Bull 2013; 12(1.000): 35-42] |
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