Prevalence of abuse and dependency in chronic pain patients

Int J Addict. 1995 Jun;30(8):919-27. doi: 10.3109/10826089509055820.

Abstract

A series of 414 chronic pain patients referred to Are Hospital, Are, Sweden, for evaluation and rehabilitation were administered a structured diagnostic interview to detect alcohol and drug misuse and dependence according to DSM-III-R criteria. A total of 97 (23.4%) met criteria for active alcohol, analgesic, or sedative misuse or dependency; an additional 39 (9.4%) met criteria for a remission diagnosis. Current dependency was most common for analgesics (12.6%) followed by alcohol (9.7%) and sedatives (7.0%).

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Alcoholism / epidemiology*
  • Analgesics*
  • Chronic Disease
  • Comorbidity
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypnotics and Sedatives*
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pain / drug therapy*
  • Pain / epidemiology
  • Patient Admission / statistics & numerical data
  • Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Sweden / epidemiology

Substances

  • Analgesics
  • Hypnotics and Sedatives