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ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Linda Cottler

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Drug Use, Abuse and Dependence in the United States: Trends, Limitations and Ideas for Future Studies.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of the Psychiatric Association of Thailand. Vol. 53, Supplement 1, August, 2008, page 23S

รายละเอียด / Details:

The latest published data on illicit use of drugs and DSM-IV drug use disorders in the US will be presented. In addition to prevalence, correlates, including co morbidity, will be assessed. Data from large general population studies will be shown, including data from the NESARC study, a study of 43,000 US residents. Data will also be presented on drug projected to be prevalent among baby boomers in 2020. Data from the general population show that between 1.4% and 7.7% of the adult population has met criteria for a 12 month and lifetime diagnosis of drug abuse respectively; this compares to 0.6% and 2.6 % of adult who met 12 month and lifetime dependence criteria for any drug respectively. Drug use disorders have been found to be more likely among men, Native Americans, and persons with lower SES, as well as those living in the western US, and the currently unmarried. Co morbidity of drug use with other psychiatric diagnoses will also be presented. Specific additional emerging drug issues such issues such as Ecstasy use in the population, data concerning adopted DSM-IV abuse / dependence from Ecstasy, prescription drug abuse, withdrawal reported from cannabis and changes in injecting drug use will be discussed. The limitations of these studies and other epidemiologic methods for defining who has or has not used drugs will be discussed, as will methods for discovering the emergence of trends in drug use in the population in the US. The aim will be a fruitful discussion of the future of psychiatric epidemiologic methods

Keywords: drug use, abuse, dependence, prevalence, trends us

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Missouri 63108, USA

Code: 2010000251

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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