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High-throughput and Comprehensive Drug Surveillance Using Multisegment Injection-Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry
Published on: April 23, 2019
[Adolescent drug use. Ethical dilemma in the diagnostic-therapeutic approach]
J L Matalí Costa1, M Pardo Gallego, V Trenchs Sainz de la Maza
1Unidad de Conductas Adictivas, Servicio de Psiquiatría y Psicología, Hospital Universitario Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, España. jmatali@hsjdbcn.org
Abstract:
Illegal drug use among adolescents has increased in recent years in Spain, as well as has the risk behaviours and problems typical of adolescence. The results of studies on drug use during this stage of life reveal the serious and wide-ranging consequences that can arise. Emergency services are often the first to receive and deal with these and its professionals must face situations that pose contradictions between two of the basic ethical principles, the principle of autonomy and the principle of beneficence; an ethical dilemma that is addressed in this work.
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