Bratfos O
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1980 Feb;61(2):157-68. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb00575.x.
Eighty-four young drug abusers and 84 non-abusers admitted to a psychiatric ward were followed over a period averaging 3 years after discharge. According to information from the patients and their families, about one third of the abusers had stopped taking drugs and appeared to be well adjusted socially. The remainder had continued their abuse, periodically or continuously. Many of them had a large alcohol consumption. The incidence of delinquency was high, also for those who claimed to have ceased their abuse. Therefore, it seems doubtful that the course is as favourable as stated in the literature. The non-abusers had fared much better, two thirds of them showing satisfactory adjustment. As to prognostic factors, intravenous administration proved to represent a particularly bad sign among the drug abusers, whilst a high alcohol intake was of special significance among the non-abusers.
对84名年轻吸毒者和84名入住精神科病房的非吸毒者在出院后平均3年的时间里进行了随访。根据患者及其家人提供的信息，约三分之一的吸毒者已停止吸毒，且社会适应状况良好。其余的人则继续定期或持续吸毒。他们中的许多人饮酒量很大。犯罪率也很高，那些声称已停止吸毒的人也是如此。因此，情况是否如文献中所述那样乐观，似乎值得怀疑。非吸毒者的情况要好得多，其中三分之二表现出令人满意的适应状况。至于预后因素，静脉注射吸毒在吸毒者中被证明是一个特别不好的迹象，而高酒精摄入量在非吸毒者中具有特殊意义。
