[Feasibility of drug use detection among individuals 15-25 years of age in community medicine].
The objective of this work is to study the feasibility of the detection of drug use or misused substances during a visit with a municipal doctor, and to describe the interrogatory strategies used spontaneously by doctors. One tenth of the clients aged 15-25 of the 26 participating doctors, (the majority of them men visiting the doctor for a psychological problem), showed a "warning" signal and were detected. The doctors often chose to approach the problem of drugs directly and detected usage in two-thirds of the cases. Cannabis was most often concerned, but the use of psychotropic drugs with alcohol was the case in one-third of the subjects interrogated. On the other hand, a certain frustration was felt by the doctors because of the difficulty of approaching the root problems and of acquiring psychotherapeutic monitoring.
Bloch
J
J
EVAL, Bourg-la-Reine.
Charpak
Y
Y
Monaque
C
C
Fhima
A
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003154:Community Medicine; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000379:methods*