@article{ref1,
title="Psychoactive drugs use and related visits of adolescents to the emergency department",
journal="Medicina clinica",
year="2010",
author="Arias Constantí, Vanessa and Sanz Marcos, Nuria and Trenchs Sainz de La Maza, Victoria and Curcoy Barcenilla, Ana Isabel and Matalí Costa, Josep and Luaces Cubells, Carles",
volume="134",
number="13",
pages="583-586",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To describe psychoactive substances (PS)-related visits of adolescents to the emergency department and to explore possible differential features in patients according to the kind of PS consumed. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Observational and analytic study. PS-related visits of adolescents to the emergency department during 30 months were studied. Patients were divided in two groups: those with alcohol intoxication only (Group_1) and those with other PS (Group_2) and they were compared. RESULTS: 333 consults were included, corresponding to 321 patients. Their mean age was 16,1 years (SD:1,1 years). Two hundred sixty-two(78,7%) were alcohol-related visits, and 110(33%) were related with another PS consumption. Of the 262 alcohol-related visits, 223 were only related with alcohol(Group_1), while the other 110 visits made up Group_2. Group_2 was composed of more males, more adolescents placed in Institutional Care and more adolescents with psychiatric records than Group_1. Likewise, distribution of Group_2 visits was less predictable than distribution of Group_1. CONCLUSIONS: PS consumption is a frequent major complaint in an Emergency Department. There are more poly-intoxications in males with psycho-social problems. In those cases, consumption seems to happen regardless of the time in the day or the day of the week.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0025-7753",
doi="10.1016/j.medcli.2010.01.019",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medcli.2010.01.019"
}