Abstract

CAMPOS, Cecília Godoi  and  COSTA JUNIOR, Moacyr Lobo da. The multiple causes of death and the psychiatric admissions resulting from the use and abuse of psychoactive substances in a minas gerais municipality. SMAD, Rev. Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool Drog. (Ed. port.) [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.3, pp. 111-115. ISSN 1806-6976.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1806-6976.v9i3p111-115.

The aim of this study was to describe the Unified Health System Psychiatric Hospitalizations for the Use and Abuse of Psychoactive Substances in a municipality of Minas Gerais State from 1998 to 2009. The information was obtained through secondary data collected from the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian Unified Health System. We observed an increase in admissions for the other drugs. Among the 751 admissions recorded no deaths occurred, but an analysis of the deaths occurring among the local residents that were not hospitalized resulted in 143 deaths. These results demonstrate the need for epidemiological monitoring, by the scientific community, of the use of these substances as well as analysis of the causes of deaths recorded in the population using Psychoactive Substances.

Keywords : Mental Health; Public Health; Epidemiology; Substance-Related Disorders.

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