Washington University Department of Psychiatry, Campus Box 8134, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis MO 63110, USA.
J Subst Abuse Treat. 2012 Jan;42(1):87-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2011.07.003. Epub 2011 Aug 9.
Very little is known about the impact of age and gender on drug abuse treatment needs. To examine this, we recruited 2,573 opioid-dependent patients, aged from 18 to 75 years, entering treatment across the country from 2008 to 2010 to complete a self-administered survey examining drug use histories and the extent of comorbid psychiatric and physical disorders. Moderate to very severe pain and psychiatric disorders, including polysubstance abuse, were present in a significant fraction of 18- to 24-year-olds, but their severity grew exponentially as a function of age: 75% of those older than 45 years had debilitating pain and psychiatric problems. Women had more pain than men and much worse psychiatric issues in all age groups. Our results indicate that a "one-size-fits-all" approach to prevention, intervention, and treatment of opioid abuse that ignores the shifting needs of opioid-abusing men and women as they age is destined to fail.
关于年龄和性别对药物滥用治疗需求的影响,人们知之甚少。为了研究这一问题,我们招募了 2573 名年龄在 18 至 75 岁之间的阿片类药物依赖患者,他们在 2008 年至 2010 年间从全国各地进入治疗,完成了一项自我管理的调查,调查了他们的药物使用史和共病精神和身体障碍的程度。中度至重度疼痛和精神障碍,包括多种物质滥用,在相当一部分 18 至 24 岁的人群中存在,但随着年龄的增长,其严重程度呈指数级增长:超过 45 岁的患者中有 75%患有致残性疼痛和精神问题。在所有年龄组中,女性的疼痛比男性更严重,精神问题也更严重。我们的研究结果表明,一种忽视滥用阿片类药物的男性和女性随着年龄增长而不断变化的需求的“一刀切”方法,用于预防、干预和治疗阿片类药物滥用注定会失败。