Translation of "poly-drug-users " (English → French) :

poly-drug user [ multiple drug user ]

multiple-dependents | poly-drug-users

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed 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, o ...

injecting drug user | injection drug user | people who inject drugs | IDU [Abbr.] | PWID [Abbr.]

intravenous drug abuser | intravenous drug user | IV drug user | IVDA [Abbr.] | IVDU [Abbr.]

injection drug user [ IDU | intravenous drug user ]

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

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

drug user [ drug consumer ]

drug dependent person | narcotic dependent person | person dependent on narcotics | dependent drug user | drug addict | narcotic addict | narcotics addict

To further develop and implement effective, evaluated indicative prevention for specific high-risk groups of (poly-) drug users, by offering low-threshold access to counselling, problem behaviour management and outreach work where relevant

Depending on the individual and what they're using, that stabilization process can take as little as three days, more typically three months, and if they are poly-drug users, up to five months before stabilization occurs.

Most of the hard drug users are poly drug users and have exposure.in my studies, I think crack was about the thirteenth drug people usually started with.

While Marie-Andrée Bertrand commented that cannabis might have an effect on adolescent maturation, she said that very few facts supported the hypothesis put forward by the majority.[104] She also concluded that there was no relationship between cannabis use and criminality, aggression or the infamous amotivational syndrome.[105] Moreover, she rejected claims that cannabis use leads to poly-drug use in most users: