Increase in pregabalin recreational use in adolescents in France
| Autor: | Jérôme Langrand, Dominique Vodovar, Weniko Caré, Sylvie Deheul, Patrick Nisse, Laurène Dufayet, Hervé Laborde-Castérot |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Substance-Related Disorders Pregabalin Poison control Recreational use Toxicology Risk Assessment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Recreational Drug Use medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Child Psychiatry Illicit Drugs business.industry Age Factors 030208 emergency & critical care medicine General Medicine Adolescent Behavior Female France business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Toxicology. 59:1027-1030 |
| ISSN: | 1556-9519 1556-3650 |
| Popis: | Misuse/abuse of pregabalin is increasing worldwide. French Poison Control Centers (PCCs) recently received several unusual calls regarding the recreational use of pregabalin in adolescents. This study aims to describe this new and specific population of pregabalin misusers.We extracted all cases of pregabalin intentional exposures reported to the French National Database of Poisonings (FNDP) from 2004 to 2020. We compared the proportion of recreational exposure to pregabalin between adolescents (10-17 years) and adults (18 years). We reviewed all cases of pregabalin recreational exposures in adolescent in order to describe the characteristics of this population.During the study period, 382 cases of acute intentional exposure to pregabalin were reported in adolescents and 1188 in adults, 94/382 (24.6%) and 43/1188 (3.6%) were pregabalin recreational use, respectively (We observed a sharp increase in pregabalin recreational use in adolescents in France. It should lead to prevention campaigns, targeted at the population at risk described in this study. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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