EVALUATION OF EXISTING TREATMENTS FOR DRUG ABUSE

该项目正在评估与吸毒者寻求 在医院急诊室接受治疗。 吸毒者可能会出现 医院急诊室的原因多种多样，有些临床上 适当的（例如，药物使用的危及生命的医学后果） 以及卫生保健系统的一些效率较低的使用（例如，非紧急 医疗条件，试图进入药物滥用治疗）。 那里 关于急诊室和急诊室之间的关系 吸毒者的来访及其寻求和参与吸毒 治疗 这项研究与紧急情况部合作， 医学在霍普金斯湾景医疗中心，巴尔的摩，MD，收集 关于社会人口统计学、药物使用和寻求治疗行为的数据 一群吸毒者去了一家城市医院， 急诊室 另一个组成部分是与临床部合作， 霍普金斯湾景医疗中心正在评估 医疗？发病率和以前的医疗和药物滥用治疗 短期住院戒毒治疗反应 滥用药物

This project is evaluating factors associated with drug users seeking treatment in a hospital emergency room. Drug users may present to a hospital emergency room for a variety of reasons, some clinically appropriate (e.g., a life-threatening medical consequence of drug use) and some less efficient uses of the health care system (e.g., non-urgent medical condition, attempt to enter substance abuse treatment). There is little data available on the relationship between emergency room visits by drug users and their seeking of and participation in drug abuse treatment. This study, in collaboration with the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, collects data on the sociodemographic, drug use, and treatment-seeking behavior of an unselected series of drug users visiting an urban hospital emergency room. Another component in collaboration with the Clinical Dependency Unit at the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, is evaluating the influence of medical ? morbidity and prior medical and substance abuse treatment on the response to short-term inpatient detoxification treatment for substance abuse.