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Juvenile Drug Offenders Who Use Amphetamine Recommitted to a Remand Center: The Role of Psychiatric Morbidity

, M.D., , M.D. Ph.D. & , M.S.
Pages 141-150 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

One hundred consecutive juvenile drug offenders with amphetamine use in a remand center were assessed for extent of substance use and psychiatric morbidity by a psychiatrist from 1998 to 1999. They were monitored for one year after discharge. The “risk” of being recommitted to the remand center against use of various drugs and psychiatric morbidity was determined. Amphetamine-use disorder was more prevalent in those who were recommitted than those who were not, while no significant difference was found with licit substances, psychiatric morbidity, or the number of substances used between these two groups. In view of the high dependency properties of amphetamine, early intervention is suggested to prevent reuse.

Resumen

Cién jovenes infractores consecutivos de drogas con uso de anfetamina en un centro de prisión preventiva fueron evaluados de la amplitud del uso de la sustancia y de la morbosidad psiquiátrica por un psiquiátra desde 1998 a 1999. Fueron observados durante un año después de la puesta en libertad. El riesgo de ser reincididos a la prisión preventiva por el uso de vários tipos de drogas y la mormosidad psiquiátrica fué determinado. El desorden por el uso de la anfetamina fué más prevalente en aquellos con reincidencia que los de sin reincidencia, mientras que no se había encontrado diferencia significativa en el índice de los encontrados con substancias lícitas, morbosidad psiquiátrica o el número de substancias entre esos dos grupos. En vista del carácter de la alta dependencia de la anfetamina, se sugiere una intervención temprana para la prevención del reuso.

Résumé

Un psychiatrie a fait une évaluation sur l’étendue de l’utilisation de substance et la morbidité psychiatrique des cent jeunes délinquants conventionnels droqués en amphétamines au centre de détention préventive de 1998 à 1999. Les jeunes délinquants étaient suivis pour un an après la libération. Le risque pour recommettre au centre de détention préventive contre l’utilisation des droques variées et la morbidité psychiatrique a été déterminé. Le désordre de l’utilisation d’amphétamine était plus fréquant entre les quel avec recommission que les quels sans recommission pendant qu’aucune différence de pourcentage signifant a été trouvée avec les substances licites, la morbidité psychiatrique ou le nombre des substances entre ces deux groupes. En vue de la haute proprieté de la dépendence d’amphétamine, l’intervention en avance est suggérée pour la prévention de recommission.

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Notes on contributors

Cheng-Fang Yen

Cheng-Fang Yen, M.D., is a Lecturer of Psychiatry at Kaohsiung Medical University and is the director of the Department of Psychiatry at Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His main research interests are substance misuse and mental health of adolescents.

Mian-Yoon Chong

Mian-Yoon Chong, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry and was the director of the Department of Psychiatry and Vice-Superintendent of the Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His main research interest is psychiatric epidemiology, and he is conducting a five-year study on substance-abusing behavior among adolescents in Taiwan.

Ya-Hui Liu

Ya-Hui Liu, M.S., is the head nurse of the Department of Psychiatry at Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Her main research interests are substance misuse and the illness behaviors of psychiatric patients.

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