Drug-related admissions to an inpatient psychiatric unit
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 137 (9) , 1093-1095
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.9.1093
Abstract
Admissions (60) to an inpatient psychiatry service were monitored to determine the role of drugs in psychiatric hospitalization. They categorized drug-related problems as drug intoxication, drug abuse, side effects of therapeutic drug, and noncompliance with prescribed medications. During the 6 mo. study 25 (41.7%) of the admissions were related to drug use; in 16 (26.7%) admissions a drug-related problem was identified as the primary cause of hospitalization. Alcohol was involved in 8 admissions, and Fiorinal, cocaine and flurazepam were each related to 2 admissions.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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