@article{ref1,
title="Drug using risks screening in primary care patients using the ASSIST test: cross sectional study",
journal="Atencion Primaria",
year="2019",
author="López-Rodríguez, Juan A. and Rigabert, Alina and Gómez Llano, M. Nieves and Rubio, Gabriel",
volume="51",
number="4",
pages="200-207",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to estimate risky-drug use patterns of consumption of primary care patients. <br><br>DESIGN: Multicentric descriptive cross-sectional study. SETTING: five primary health care centers of the South of Madrid. PARTICIPANTS: all patients between 16-100 year-old consulting with their family physician. MEASUREMENTS: Spanish-validated World Health Organization ASSIST test was use to screen risky drug use in primary care. Total points scored at the test were obtained. <br><br>RESULTS: A sum of 441 screening test were collected. Mean age was 51,3 years and 51.6% of patients presented a moderate-severe risky drug use out of the nine drugs tested. The more frequent drug use screened were tobacco (41.7%) followed by alcohol (15.4%), hypnotics (13.7%) and cannabis (5.7%). Differences were found between genders in the patterns: men had higher risky drug uses compared to women regarding alcohol and cannabis. Women had higher sedatives/hypnotics consumption prevalence. A 16% of patients presented with polyconsumption drug use patterns. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: There is risk derived from drug misuse in primary care for tobacco, alcohol, hypnotics and cannabis as detected by the ASSIST test. There is a higher rate of hypnotics than expected.<br><br>Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0212-6567",
doi="10.1016/j.aprim.2017.03.021",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2017.03.021"
}