Screening for drug and alcohol abuse in a general medical population
- 10 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 242 (6) , 533-535
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.242.6.533
Abstract
General medical patients [150, 1st visit] were simply and inexpensively screened by questionnaire, personal inquiry and physical examination for drug and alcohol abuse. Currently 17, [11.3%] used psychoactive drugs, excluding alcohol and 10 (6.7%) used drugs or alcohol on a daily basis to the point that the patient considered it an abuse problem. The majority of the drug and alcohol users recognized their problem on a short questionnaire that was part of a medical intake form. Almost all of the recognized abusers of drugs or alcohol subsequently entered treatment of their problem.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Outlook for Treating Patients with Self-Destructive HabitsAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1974