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1Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat.
Abstract:
The outpatient follow-up care of 140 substance misusers in Kuwait was evaluated. Treatment has been traditionally based on substitution pharmacotherapy with no set objectives or criteria for outcome evaluation. Patients' structural characteristics, mode of referral, clinical diagnoses, medication prescribed and screening urine samples for drugs were examined for meaningful associations between these variables. Benzodiazepines were by far the most prescribed (94%) medication. Only 40% of the urine test results were positive for drugs containing different combinations of medications and street drugs. Unlike patients who received benzodiazepine, those who received tricyclic antidepressant medication were significantly more likely to associate with predictors of improvement. There is a need for better training of doctors and careful selection of patients in order to implement treatment strategies based on good doctor-patient relationships and well defined objectives for treatment and clear criteria of outcome.
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