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。吸毒者可向 医院急诊室原因多种多样，有些是临床上的 适当的(例如，药物使用造成的危及生命的医学后果) 以及卫生保健系统的一些低效使用(例如，非紧急 身体状况，试图进入药物滥用治疗)。那里 关于急诊室之间的关系的数据很少吗？ 吸毒者的探访及其寻求和参与药物滥用 治疗。这项研究，与紧急情况部合作 马里兰州巴尔的摩霍普金斯湾景医疗中心的医学收集 关于社会人口学、药物使用和寻求治疗行为的数据 一系列未被选中的吸毒者去城市医院就诊 急诊室。 与临床依赖股合作的另一个组成部分 霍普金斯湾景医疗中心正在评估 体检？发病率、既往医疗和药物滥用治疗情况 慢性阻塞性肺病患者短期住院戒毒治疗的反应 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.