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PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS?
The congruence between self reported drug use and urinalysis data among 89 consecutive opioid dependents at their first contact in an outpatient clinic was examined. For this purpose self reports of drug use within preceding 72 hr, laboratory analysis of urine samples by thin layer chromatography (T...
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2001
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407880 |
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author | Jain, Raka Dhawan, Anju kumar, Ramesh Ray, Rajat Singh, Rajveer |
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description | The congruence between self reported drug use and urinalysis data among 89 consecutive opioid dependents at their first contact in an outpatient clinic was examined. For this purpose self reports of drug use within preceding 72 hr, laboratory analysis of urine samples by thin layer chromatography (TLC) were carried out for various drugs. The same samples were also confirmed by gas liquid chromatography (GLC). Many subjects reported concomitant poly-drug use. The base rate was found to be low for other drugs besides heroin. The conclusion could be dra wn more con vincingly as regard heroin use. Inaccuracy in self-report of drug use has been observed using GLC as a gold standard. The subjects are likely to be more accurate when they report abstinence than when reporting drug use. These results also suggest that clinicians should be cautious while prescribing agonist/partial agonists especially based on only self-report for long term maintenance program, as many patients may not be really physiolologically dependent. |
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spelling | pubmed-29562412011-03-15 PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS? Jain, Raka Dhawan, Anju kumar, Ramesh Ray, Rajat Singh, Rajveer Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The congruence between self reported drug use and urinalysis data among 89 consecutive opioid dependents at their first contact in an outpatient clinic was examined. For this purpose self reports of drug use within preceding 72 hr, laboratory analysis of urine samples by thin layer chromatography (TLC) were carried out for various drugs. The same samples were also confirmed by gas liquid chromatography (GLC). Many subjects reported concomitant poly-drug use. The base rate was found to be low for other drugs besides heroin. The conclusion could be dra wn more con vincingly as regard heroin use. Inaccuracy in self-report of drug use has been observed using GLC as a gold standard. The subjects are likely to be more accurate when they report abstinence than when reporting drug use. These results also suggest that clinicians should be cautious while prescribing agonist/partial agonists especially based on only self-report for long term maintenance program, as many patients may not be really physiolologically dependent. Medknow Publications 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2956241/ /pubmed/21407880 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Jain, Raka Dhawan, Anju kumar, Ramesh Ray, Rajat Singh, Rajveer PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS? |
title | PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS? |
title_full | PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS? |
title_fullStr | PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS? |
title_full_unstemmed | PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS? |
title_short | PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS? |
title_sort | patients in treatment centres: are they all dependents? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407880 |
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