Crack/Cocaine Abusers in the General Hospital: Assessment and Initiation of Care
Crack/Cocaine Abusers in the General Hospital: Assessment and Initiation of Care
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总医院中的快克/可卡因滥用者:评估和护理启动
DOI:
10.3109/10884609209023742
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
H. Franco
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Galanter;S. Egelko;George De Leon;C. Rohrs;H. Franco
OBJECTIVE
Cocaine, either smoked (as "crack") or taken intranasally, is now a common cause of psychiatric illness. This study was designed to assess the impact of cocaine abuse on a general psychiatric service and an obstetrics service in an urban general hospital and to evaluate a program for engaging affected patients in addiction treatment.
METHOD
The charts of 300 general psychiatric patients (not admitted for addiction treatment) and 60 cocaine-abusing prenatal or postpartum patients were reviewed. A treatment referral program based on professionally directed peer leadership was established for patients with cocaine abuse. Results of evaluation and referral of 100 other cocaine-abusing psychiatric patients and the 60 prenatal or postpartum patients were then determined.
RESULTS
Fully 64% (N = 191) of the 300 psychiatric patients were diagnosed as substance abusers; 38% (N = 113) of them abused cocaine. Almost one-third of these cocaine abusers had no axis I diagnosis other than substance abuse/dependence, and the majority were homeless. Urine samples were positive for cocaine in a majority of the obstetric patients studied. A majority of the psychiatric patients who were referred through the peer-led program enrolled in outpatient cocaine treatment--three times as many as in the chart review group. Most of the obstetric patients suitable for referral enrolled for treatment as well.
CONCLUSIONS
Cocaine abuse may be responsible for a large portion of psychiatric admissions in urban public general hospitals. Cocaine abusers in psychiatric and obstetrics services are apparently responsive to a peer-oriented mode of referral into treatment.
DOI:
10.1176/ajp.146.3.296
发表时间:
1989
期刊:
The American journal of psychiatry
影响因子:
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作者:
Rogler,LH
通讯作者:
Rogler,LH
影响因子:
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作者:
Gawin,FH;Kleber,HD;Byck,R;Rounsaville,BJ;Kosten,TR;Jatlow,PI;Morgan,C
通讯作者:
Morgan,C