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Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran

Objective: To assess the prevalence of opioid abuse in a sample of male population in Shiraz, Iran. Methods: A representative sample of 1219 subjects (aged 16 years or older) who were referred for urine opioid screen (UOS) as a mandatory test before marriage in Shiraz in 2005 were enrolled in this s...

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Autores principales: Ahmadi, Jamshid, Naghshvarian, Mojtaba, Afshari, Ramin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3939974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24644457
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description Objective: To assess the prevalence of opioid abuse in a sample of male population in Shiraz, Iran. Methods: A representative sample of 1219 subjects (aged 16 years or older) who were referred for urine opioid screen (UOS) as a mandatory test before marriage in Shiraz in 2005 were enrolled in this study. Results: Mean age of the participants was 26.17 years (SD=6.12), ranging from 16 to 75 years. From them, 121 participants (9.93%) had positive urine opioid test. They were retested at least few days later by thin layer chromatography (TLC). The results showed that 22 (1.80%) had positive urine opioid test (based on TLC), whose mean age was 25.7 years, ranging from 19 to 32 years. Conclusion: It can be concluded that at least 1.80% of men referred for UOS as a mandatory test before marriage used opioids. These results should be considered when preventive and therapeutic programs are being planned.
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spelling pubmed-39399742014-03-18 Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran Ahmadi, Jamshid Naghshvarian, Mojtaba Afshari, Ramin Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci Brief Report Objective: To assess the prevalence of opioid abuse in a sample of male population in Shiraz, Iran. Methods: A representative sample of 1219 subjects (aged 16 years or older) who were referred for urine opioid screen (UOS) as a mandatory test before marriage in Shiraz in 2005 were enrolled in this study. Results: Mean age of the participants was 26.17 years (SD=6.12), ranging from 16 to 75 years. From them, 121 participants (9.93%) had positive urine opioid test. They were retested at least few days later by thin layer chromatography (TLC). The results showed that 22 (1.80%) had positive urine opioid test (based on TLC), whose mean age was 25.7 years, ranging from 19 to 32 years. Conclusion: It can be concluded that at least 1.80% of men referred for UOS as a mandatory test before marriage used opioids. These results should be considered when preventive and therapeutic programs are being planned. Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3939974/ /pubmed/24644457 Text en © 2011, Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran
title Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran
title_full Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran
title_fullStr Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran
title_full_unstemmed Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran
title_short Opioids Use in Male Population Referred for Mandatory Urine Opioid Screen Before Marriage in Shiraz-Iran
title_sort opioids use in male population referred for mandatory urine opioid screen before marriage in shiraz-iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3939974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24644457
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