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P-114 - Characteristics of the Onset of Opioid Dependence Influence the Process of Dependence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

M. Ziółkowski ,
S. Biedrzycki ,
J. Feit ,
K. Pasgreta  and
E. Gorzelańczyk
M. Ziółkowski
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry Nursing, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland
S. Biedrzycki
Affiliation:
Provincial Hospital for Neurotic and Mentally III, Swiecie, Poland
J. Feit
Affiliation:
Non Public Health Care Center Sue Ryder Home, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
K. Pasgreta
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Basis of Bio-Medical Sciences and Medical Informatics, Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland
E. Gorzelańczyk
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

Abstract

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Introduction and objectives

In alcohol dependence are distinguished two types of course of illness in relation to age of onset of dependence.

Aims

An assessment of differences between opiate addicts with early and late age of onset of dependence.

Methods

242 opiate dependent patients, treated with methadone, were asked about: length of dependence, dosage of methadone, HIV infection, effects of methadone on interviewed subjects and the age of onset of opiate dependence.

Results

In our sample 140 (58%) subjects developed opiate dependence below the age of 19, and 102 (42%) subjects developed dependence above the age of 18. Comparison of the patients with the onset of opiate dependence above the age of 18 with the patients with the onset of opiate dependence blow the age of 19 revealed that in the group with younger age of onset of opiate dependence there were statistically significant more women (40 vs. 23%), the patients were younger (35 vs. 38 years old), had longer time of dependence (19 vs. 16 years), had shorter time of well-being after taking a dose of methadone (12 vs. 15 hours).

Conclusion

Our research may suggest, in accordance with findings in alcohol dependence that subjects with early age of onset of opiate dependence differ in the course of dependence with the patients with late age of onset of opiate dependence.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 27 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2012 , pp. 1
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2012
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