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标题：Alcohol and Opiate Withdrawal in US Jails
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作者：Kevin Fiscella ; Naomi Pless ; Sean Meldrum 等
期刊名称：American journal of public health
印刷版ISSN：0090-0036
出版年度：2004
卷号：94
期号：9
页码：1522-1524
语种：English
出版社：American Public Health Association
摘要：We sought to estimate the number of arrestees at risk for inadequately treated drug and alcohol withdrawal in US jails. We used Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program data to estimate prevalence rates of alcohol and opiate dependence. Our results revealed rates of alcohol and opiate dependency among arrestees of approximately 12% and 4%, respectively; only 28% of jail administrators reported that their institutions had ever detoxified arrestees. Inadequately treated drug and alcohol withdrawal in US jails appears widespread. Our data raise important ethical and constitutional questions. Inadequately treated alcohol and drug withdrawal have been shown to contribute to deaths among newly arrested individuals. 1– 8 Despite such findings, little attention has been focused on the availability of alcohol and drug detoxification among arrestees. In this study, we used published data to estimate the number of arrestees at risk for untreated alcohol or opiate withdrawal in US jails.