05Apr 2019

PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF OPIOID ADDICTION IN HARYANA, PUNJAB AND RAJASTHAN.

  • Research Scholar, Department of Pharmacology, Pacific University, Udaipur.
  • Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, JamiaHamdard, New Delhi.
  • Senior Researcher, Department of Pharmacology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
  • Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, SGT Medical College and Hospital, Gurgaon.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, SGT Medical College and Hospital, Gurgaon.
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Introduction: Opiate is the one of the major drugs of abuse in India. In National household survey 2004, 0.7% of population was detected with opioid abuse disorder. There was lot of studies done at different states to find out prevalence of opioid abuse, but none of the study compared the opioid abuser disorder with other states. The present study was thus conducted to assess the prevalence and pattern of opioid dependence in state of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. Methodology: Total 540 patients with opioid dependence were enrolled from the three different deaddiction centers- one in Haryana, One in Punjab and One in Rajasthan from January 2016 to December 2017. Social demographic details were collected and pattern of opioid dependence were obtained by self-reporting and corroborated from cases notes. Results: In sample of 540 patients with opioid dependence, 202 patients were from Haryana, 168 were from Punjab and 170 were from Rajasthan. Average age of patients was 39 to 40 years. All were male with education status above metric in more than 80% of sample size and more than 75% of patients were employed. Opioid abuse disorder was seen in mainly married patients with average duration of dependence 9 to 10 years. In different form of opioid, opium/bhukki (75-85%) was common form of opioid in all the three staes followed by heroin(13-25%) and pharmaceutical drugs (2-3%). Conclusion: This study shows the social demographic profile is almost same in all the three states and opioid dependence was mainly seen in married and educated patients too.

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[Abhinav Kapoor, Kanchan Kohli, Phulen Sarma, Abhishek Kapoor and Nimmi A Jose. (2019); PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF OPIOID ADDICTION IN HARYANA, PUNJAB AND RAJASTHAN. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 7 (Apr). 697-701] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Dr Abhishek Kapoor
SGT Medical College and Hospital

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/8873      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/8873

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