title: [Profile of drug addicts admitted to a hospital detoxification unit during a four-and-a-half year period].
abstract: It realize a overall and evolutionarily (6 months periods) study concerning the 1,313 drug dependents that were admitted to the Detoxication Unit of the Hospital Psiquiátrico de Madrid, since October 1985 to March 1990. The sociodemographic, drug dependence history, the Physical and toxicological state at admittance, the inpatient evolution, and the familiar and personal psychopathological history variables were evaluated. It bring out that the 45% are dependents to another drug apart from the heroin, the gradual increase in the mean age and in the use of the cocaine, a decrease in the use of the cannabis, anyway the appearance of the buprenorphine addition. There is a gradual decrease, in the period studied, of the antibodies HIV carrier rates. It shows that there is a relationship between this. The poly drug dependents have more legal incidences, psychopathological personal histories (heroin and alcohol and/or benzodiazepines addiction), use more the i.v. route and the HIV seroprevalence are the greatest.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Psiquiátrico Provincial, Carretera de Colmenar Viejo, Madrid.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sopelana
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Diéguez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bautista
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D015528:HIV Seroprevalence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011329:Prisoners; D012008:Recurrence; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*
vernacular_title: Perfil de los drogodependientes que ingresan en una unidad de desintoxicación hospitalaria durante un período de cuatro años y medio.