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ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
Volume 36, Issue 1-2, Pages 161-165Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.09.003
Keywords
Adolescent; Psychiatric disorders; Psychotropic medication; Substance use disorders; Benzodiazepines
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- Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (ABMRF)
- A K Snellman Foundation
- Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies
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We evaluated the pre hospitalization psychotropic medication of adolescents with different psychiatric disorders and examined possible differences in medication history in relation to lifetime psychiatric diagnoses of study subjects The study sample consisted of 300 girls and 208 boys (age 12-17) admitted to psychiatric inpatient hospital between April 2001 and March 2006 The information on drug therapy history and psychiatric diagnoses were obtained from the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Aged Children Present and Lifetime (K-SADS PL) Adolescents with drug use disorders had elevated rates of pre hospitalization prescribed benzodiazepines (BZDs) Antidepressants and antipsychotics were mainly used by depressed and psychotic adolescents Previously prescribed BZD medication was associated with 3-fold Increased rates of sedative abuse or dependence Girls had been prescribed antidepressants and BZDs statistically significantly more commonly than boys The results of our study underline the importance of careful consideration of the use of benzochazepines especially in the outpatient treatment of adolescents (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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