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Cocaine use and employment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
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Introduction
Cocaine use is prevalent in mental health consultations in both sexes. However, in men and women there are differences in the frequency of use of substances and on the employment situation.
Objectives
Show the differences for the use of cocaine and employment status of men and women, in a sample of patients followed at the Mental Health Center in Drug Dependency Unit.
Material and methods
We conducted a cross-sectional study and analyze the differences according to sex for cocaine use and the employment situation, in a sample of patients who are undergoing treatment at the Mental Health Center for a year diagnosed with dual pathology.
Results
In men in active employment status, the percentage of cocaine use is 19.5% and if we compare with women in the same job situation, the percentage of cocaine use is 0%.
Men who are unemployed use more cocaine than women in the same job situation. For retirees, the highest percentage of cocaine is found in women.
Hundred percent of women use cocaine by sniffing. Men use different ways of cocaine consume.
Snorted way 67.7%, 14.9% smoked and snorted, smoked 8% and 2.3% intravenous.
Conclusion
Men use cocaine more frequently unemployed while women do more it often being retired.
The route most used cocaine consume in both sexes is snorted.
Disclosure of interest
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
- Type
- EV88
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S314
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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