چکیده انگلیسی

Introduction: During the recent decades, Iran has suffered from drug abuse and its consequences. On the other hand, recently, the occurrence of injuries and those related to mortality have increased dramatically in Iran. We have conducted this study to examine substance use among patients attended to emergency departments. Methods: This cross sectional population-based study was performed from January-June 2008. In this study 318 non fatally injured people who were referred to emergence departments of Sabzevar city were evaluated based on multi stage sampling. Abuse of amphetamines, marijuana, opium (opium and heroin) as illegal drugs and codeine and methadone as medical drugs were evaluated through standard methods. Extraction of opium and heroin was performed by using chromatography. Statistical analyses were perused using Chi-square, exact Fisher, logistic regression tests by using SPSS software. Significance level was considered as 0.05. Results: Mean±SD of age of the evaluated persons was 36.1±18.1 and 23% of them were female. From total number of injured cases, 36.5% of cases were driver, 10.7% passenger, 7.2% pedestrian, fall 41.8% and 3.8% violence. Prevalence of use of illegal drugs was 31.1% and there was not any significant difference between the male and female groups. Among the illegal drugs, the maximum use was for opium and the minimum was for amphetamine and marijuana. The maximum prevalence of abuse was observed in pedestrians and was 39.1% and the minimum was observed in drivers and was 27.6%. There was not any significant relation between the type of injury and abuse of illegal drugs. Medical cases were 23.6% among the total cases. Conclusion: Among the injuries the most frequent was accident and the prevalence of abuse of illegal drugs in the injured cases referred to emergency departments in Sabzevar city was relatively high. Our results are indicating that it is necessary to use precautionary strategies to reduce the abuse of drugs in Sabzevar. Substance Use Among Non-fatally Injured Patients Attended.... Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288972736_Substance_Use_Among_Non-fatally_Injured_Patients_Attended_Emergency_Departments_in_North-East_of_Iran_Sabzevar [accessed Apr 25 2018].