{"id":2050,"date":"2009-07-17T14:41:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:41:53","slug":"teen-er-visits-often-involve-alcohol-other-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/teen-er-visits-often-involve-alcohol-other-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen ER Visits Often Involve Alcohol, Other Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Summary<\/strong>Researchers from the University of Michigan Health System tested 443 patients ages 14-17 who entered the emergency room at the school&#8217;s hospital for treatment of severe injuries. They found that 29 percent tested positive for opiates, 11.2 percent tested positive for alcohol, and 20 percent tested positive for marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two major preventable health issues facing adolescents are injuries that result in death or disability, and lifestyle choices that have long-term, adverse health consequences,&#8221; said lead researcher Peter Ehrlich. &#8220;To help alter this risk-taking behavior, it is essential that drug testing and brief substance-abuse intervention programs be included in the treatment of all injured adolescents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich called for comprehensive drug screening in emergency rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The research was published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich PF, Brown JK, Drongowski R. (2006) Characterization of the drug-positive adolescent trauma population: should we, do we, and does it make a difference if we test? Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 41(5): 927-930.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: , Reuters reported May 17 2006<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research SummaryResearchers from the University of Michigan Health System tested 443 patients ages 14-17 who entered the emergency room at the school&#8217;s hospital for treatment of severe injuries. They found that 29 percent tested positive for opiates, 11.2 percent tested positive for alcohol, and 20 percent tested positive for marijuana. \u00a0 &#8220;The two major preventable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs-and-accidents","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}