Traduction de «drug users take » (Anglais → Français) :

...rmed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and ...[+++]indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, or other psycho-physiological functions and responses. The disturbances are directly related to the acute pharmacological effects of the substance and resolve with time, with complete recovery, except where tissue damage or other complications have arisen. Complications may include trauma, inhalation of vomitus, delirium, coma, convulsions, and other medical complications. The nature of these complications depends on the pharmacological class of substance and mode of administration. Acute drunkenness in alcoholism Bad trips (drugs) Drunkenness NOS Pathological intoxication Trance and possession disorders in psychoactive substance intoxication Excl.: intoxication meaning poisoning (T36-T50) .1 Harmful use A pattern of psychoactive substance use that is causing damage to health. The damage may be physical (as in cases of hepatitis from the self-administration of injected psychoactive substances) or mental (e.g. episodes of depressive disorder secondary to heavy consumption of alcohol). Psychoactive substance abuse .2 Dependence syndrome A cluster of behavioural, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated substance use and that typically include a strong desire to take the drug, difficulties in controlling its use, persisting in its use despite harmful consequences, a higher priority given to drug use than to other activities and obligations, increased tolerance, and sometimes a physical withdrawal state. The dependence syndrome may be present for a specific psychoactive substance (e.g. tobacco, alcohol, or diazepam), for a class of substances (e.g. opioid drugs), or for a wider range of pharmacologically different psychoactive substances. Chronic alcoholism Dipsomania Drug addiction .3 Withdr ...

drug users taking the drug orally

drug users taking their drugs by intravenous injection

drug user taking the drug orally

Definition: This category should be used when two or more psychoactive substances are known to be involved, but it is impossible to assess which substance is contributing most to the disorders. It should also be used when the exact identity of some or even all the psychoactive substances being used is uncertain or unknown, since many multiple drug users themselves often do not know the details of what they are taking. | misuse of drugs NOS

poly-drug user [ multiple drug user ]

injection drug user [ IDU | intravenous drug user ]

severely-addicted drug user (1) | severely dependent drug user (2)

drug user [ drug consumer ]

Definition: A wide variety of medicaments and folk remedies may be involved, but the particularly important groups are: (a) psychotropic drugs that do not produce dependence, such as antidepressants, (b) laxatives, and (c) analgesics that may be purchased without medical prescription, such as aspirin and paracetamol. Persistent use of these substances often involves unnecessary contacts with medical professionals or supporting staff, and is sometimes accompanied by harmful physical effects of the substances. Attempts to dissuade or forbid the use of the substance are often met with resistance; for laxatives and analgesics this may be in ...[+++] spite of warnings about (or even the development of) physical harm such as renal dysfunction or electrolyte disturbances. Although it is usually clear that the patient has a strong motivation to take the substance, dependence or withdrawal symptoms do not develop as in the case of the psychoactive substances specified in F10-F19. | Abuse of:antacids | herbal or folk remedies | steroids or hormones | vitamins | Laxative habit

What then is the point of shutting drug users up in prison, when prison is a place where drugs are available and used, and when this situation may increase crime because users, when released, may have to take up or continue a life of crime to pay their drug debts?

Mougin showed that since the end of the last century and especially after the Second World War, outreach work has been associated with a series of players (the poor, youth, new youth cultures, “hidden” drug users, users of synthetic drugs) based on political traditions relating to drugs and the priorities of the day, not to mention changes in context and any other changes that may have occurred.[23] This means that in countries that take a pragmatic approach to drugs, like Denmark and the Neth ...[+++]erlands, the area has developed more quickly than in countries like France that take a more political and medical approach.

They would further ensure that the necessary and long-overdue in-depth review of Canadian drug laws and policies takes place and would constitute a first step towards treating drug use as a social and health rather than criminal issue, and toward treating drug users as human beings rather than criminals to whom we owe no respect and who have no dignity and no rights.

The experts in the field who work with drugs and drug users say that this is crazy and that we should take a different approach.