Change in profile of acute self drug-poisonings over a 10–year period

All acute, deliberate, drug-poisoning-related emergency department visits over two periods of one year, 1992-1993 (P1) and 2001-2002 (P2), were reviewed to investigate trends in substances used for acute self drug-poisonings over a 10-year period. For P1 and P2 respectively, 804 and 830 episodes of...

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Published in:Human & experimental toxicology 2004-11, Vol.23 (11), p.507-511
Main Authors: Staikowsky, Frédérik, Theil, Florence, Mercadier, Paule, Candella, Séebastien, Benais, Jean Pierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Analgesics
Antidepressants
Benzodiazepines
Biological and medical sciences
Drug intoxications. Doping
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Drugs
Emergency medical care
Emergency Medicine
Epidemiology
Humans
Medical sciences
Narcotics
Pharmaceutical Preparations - classification
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Poisoning
Poisoning - epidemiology
Poisoning - etiology
Public health
Public Health - trends
Retrospective Studies
Self-Injurious Behavior - epidemiology
Self-Injurious Behavior - etiology
Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data
Toxicology
Trends
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Summary:All acute, deliberate, drug-poisoning-related emergency department visits over two periods of one year, 1992-1993 (P1) and 2001-2002 (P2), were reviewed to investigate trends in substances used for acute self drug-poisonings over a 10-year period. For P1 and P2 respectively, 804 and 830 episodes of acute self drug-poisonings were compared. For the two studied periods, psycholeptic drugs predominated (78 and 77%); however, benzodiazepines declined (67 to 55%; P
ISSN:0960-3271
1477-0903
DOI:10.1191/0960327104ht487oa