[Characterization of psychiatric admissions for detoxification of drug addicted adolescents]

The purpose of this research was to characterize the profile of adolescents hospitalized for detoxification in a public hospital in the West of Paraná and correlate the socio-demographic variables with the use of street drugs. It is a retrospective study from the consultations in 81 protocols of admission of addicted adolescents hospitalized from March 2007 to April 2008. The largest admission was of male adolescents (79%).The most frequently used drugs by were crack (87.6%), followed by marijuana (85.2%), from these, 79% of these adolescents use these two drugs concomitantly. Most adolescents (55.6%) reported using drugs for more than three years, and 56.8% had already received some type of treatment before admission. Factors that lead to abusive consumption of drugs, such as easy access, leaving school, the use of drugs in the family and lack of motivation for treatment were identified.