Forrester Mathias B
Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas 78756, USA.
J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2006 Nov;69(22):2041-9. doi: 10.1080/15287390600746207.
Aside from calls involving human exposures to potentially toxic substances, poison control centers handle other types of calls such as drug identifications (drug IDs). A portion of drug ID requests originates from law enforcement. The objective of this study was to describe such drug ID requests from law enforcement received by Texas poison control centers during 2002-2004. These calls were examined with respect to year of call, location of caller, and type of drug. There were in total 26,752 drug ID calls (involving 27,800 individual drug ID requests) from law enforcement, representing 3% of total calls and 16% of all drug ID calls received. The number of drug ID calls received from law enforcement and the proportion of total calls and all drug ID calls these represented increased from 2002 to 2004. A disproportionate number of the drug ID requests originated from eastern-central Texas. The most frequently involved drugs were analgesics (particularly acetaminophen and hydrocodone), sedatives and related drugs (particularly alprazolam), and muscle relaxants (particularly carisoprodol).
除了涉及人类接触潜在有毒物质的来电外，毒物控制中心还处理其他类型的来电，如药物识别（药物ID）。一部分药物ID请求来自执法部门。本研究的目的是描述2002年至2004年期间德克萨斯州毒物控制中心收到的来自执法部门的此类药物ID请求。对这些来电进行了关于来电年份、来电者所在地和药物类型的审查。来自执法部门的药物ID来电共有26,752个（涉及27,800个单独的药物ID请求），占总来电的3%，占所有收到的药物ID来电的16%。2002年至2004年期间，来自执法部门的药物ID来电数量以及这些来电在总来电和所有药物ID来电中所占的比例有所增加。药物ID请求数量不成比例地多来自德克萨斯州中东部。最常涉及的药物是镇痛药（特别是对乙酰氨基酚和氢可酮）、镇静剂及相关药物（特别是阿普唑仑）和肌肉松弛剂（特别是卡立普多）。
