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1795 – Course Of Dependent Patients With Buprenorphine High Dosage: About 32 Cases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
Abstract
Discussions about the limitation of the prescription and dispensing of buprenorphine hight dose (Subutex ®) emphasize the need for a systematic and formalized cooperation between the various contributors in health.
Describe the course of caring for patients addicted to Subutex followed at the outpatient service of Razi hospital.
A retrospective study was conducted on the records of patients who consulted the outpatient service of Razi hospital during a six-month period and whose diagnosis of dependence to Subutex was retained.
Twenty three patients were addicted to Subutex. 100% male. The mean age of the patients was 32.13 years. Almost 82.6% of patients had a low socioeconomic level and 78.3% of them did not have insurance. 16 were unemployed. A history of incarceration was found in 82.6% of patients. The duration of use of Subutex ranged between 2 and 168 months. Places of acquisition of this molecule were precised only by 26% of consumers. Fifteen consultants do not have any history of detoxification cure and 8 of them had 1 or 2 cures. In addition, 78.3% of patients reported being motivated to stop their addiction. Regarding collaboration of physicians, 8 patients (34% of the patients) were referred by generalist physicians, 7 patients by specialist physicians, 4 patients by emergency and 2 by psychiatrists.
The management of patients addicted to Subutex in our country is deficient. These results argue for the necessity of general measures of support dependent on psychoactive substances.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E1054
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2013
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