The impact of drug-related deaths on mortality among young adults in Madrid.

Fuente, Luis de la; Barrio, Gregorio; Vicente, Julián; Bravo, María J.; Santacreu, José

doi:10.2105/ajph.85.1.102

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“…To date we are not aware of any published study determining the SDS scale cut-off score for heroin dependence, even though this was one of the first substances studied [6] . Heroin use has been an important health problem among youth in Spain and the consequences of its use are still causing significant health impairment [16,17] .…”

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Severity of Dependence Scale as a Diagnostic Tool for Heroin and Cocaine Dependence

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Aims: Our aim was to further assess the Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) validity and to identify the cut-off score for a DSM-IV diagnosis of heroin and cocaine dependence through a cross-sectional survey in Barcelona, Spain. Methods: The Psychiatric Research Interview for Substance and Mental Disorders (PRISM) was used as the gold standard. 146 young (18–30 years old) heroin users were recruited from outside the healthcare context, 135 of whom were also current cocaine users. SDS scores were correlated to quantity, frequency and length of drug use. Results: The SDS cut-off point at which there was optimal discrimination of a DSM-IV diagnosis presence was found to be 3 (i.e., a score of 3 or more) for heroin dependence and 4 for cocaine dependence. Conclusions: The study gives further support to SDS dimensional properties and to its validity for rapid assessment of current heroin and cocaine dependence.

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Severity of Dependence Scale as a Diagnostic Tool for Heroin and Cocaine Dependence

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“…Drug addiction is a major cause of death among young adults in most developed countries. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Injecting drug users (IDUs) have a high excess of mortality for all causes and for several speci c causes when compared with the general population of the same age and sex (AIDS, overdose, infectious diseases, violence and accidents). [6][7][8][9][10] Even before the AIDS era, IDUs showed an increased risk of death from several causes.…”

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Mortality among problem drug users in Rome: an 18‐year follow‐up study, 1980–97

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AIDS mortality among drug addicts began to decrease earlier than expected; the decrease was particularly significant in the period 1993-94 for both sexes. Afterwards a continuous but slight decrease was observed among males only. Even though overdose mortality has also decreased slightly in recent years, we still observe high mortality levels for both overdose and all other causes. These findings suggest that interventions directed specifically towards the reduction of baseline mortality are still needed.

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“…JOSÉ CARLOS DE MIGUEL-BOUZAS*; EVA CASTRO-TUBÍO**; ANA MARÍA BERMEJO-BARRERA***; PURIFICACIÓN FERNÁNDEZ-GÓMEZ***; JUAN CARLOS ESTÉVEZ-NÚÑEZ****; MARÍA JESÚS TABERNERO-DUQUE*** E n la actualidad, el problema social que constituyen las intoxicaciones agudas, implica aspectos económicos, socioculturales, demográficos y psicológicos, y lejos de resolverse, hace crecer día a día sus repercusiones sanitarias (de la Fuente, Barrio, Vicente, Bravo y Santacreu, 1995;Torralba et al, 1996).…”

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