Titre : | Young people with heroin dependence: findings from the Australian treatment outcome study (ATOS) |
Titre traduit : | (Jeunes héroïnomanes : données de l'étude Australienne sur les résultats de traitement (Australian Treatment Outcome Study - ATOS) |
Auteurs : | K. L. MILLS ; M. TEESSON ; S. DARKE ; J. ROSS ; M. LYNSKEY |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 2004 |
Format : | 67-73 / graph. ; tabl. |
Note générale : |
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2004, 27, (1), 67-73 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés HEROINE ; DEPENDANCE ; JEUNE ADULTE ; ETUDE LONGITUDINALE ; COMORBIDITE ; PSYCHIATRIE ; DEPRESSION ; TROUBLES DE LA PERSONNALITE ; ETAT LIMITE ; SUICIDEThésaurus géographique AUSTRALIE |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : This paper examines the patterns and correlates of heroin use in a cohort of 210 young Australians aged between 18 and 24, who were participants in the Australian Treatment Outcome Study, a longitudinal study of treatment outcomes for heroin dependence. Of major importance were the high rates of psychiatric comorbidity found among this group (37% lifetime Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, 23% current Major Depression, 75% Anti-Social Personality Disorder, and 51% Borderline Personality Disorder). Seventeen percent had attempted suicide in the preceding year. Although both the young (aged 18-24 years) heroin users and their older counterparts (aged 25--56 years) initiated drug use at the same age, young heroin users progressed to heroin use, regular heroin use, and treatment for heroin use, twice as quickly as older heroin users. These findings suggest that there is a limited window of opportunity in which early interventions may be applied before young heroin users progress to problematic use. (Editor's abstract.) |
Note de contenu : | graph. ; tabl. |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 49 |
Affiliation : |
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales. E-mail : k.millsunsw.edu.au Australie. Australia. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 404548 |
Centre Emetteur : | 04 CIRDD-51 |
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