title: Drug abuse among state hospital psychiatric inpatients with particular reference to PCP.
abstract: The pattern of alcohol and drug abuse among 78 consecutive newly admitted patients to a middle Tennessee state hospital psychiatric ward was examined. There was a high prevalence of alcohol, marijuana, hypnotic sedative, and stimulant abuse among this patient population within 1 month prior to their hospitalization. However, only 1 patient gave a history of PCP abuse and none of the 76 plasma samples analyzed by the GCN and GC2-N methods was positive for PCP or its common analogues. This study does not support a high prevalence of PCP abuse among this group of psychiatric patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006783:Hospitals, State; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010623:Phencyclidine Abuse / Q000453:epidemiology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013714:Tennessee