{"id":2152,"date":"2009-07-17T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:28:09","slug":"alarming-increase-in-drug-users-seeking-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/alarming-increase-in-drug-users-seeking-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming Increase In Drug Users Seeking Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>According to Dr. Patricia Casey, professor of psychiatry at Dublin\u2019s Mater Hospital, there has been a noticeable increase in attendance at accident and emergency departments by teenagers taking ecstasy and LSD and suffering acute psychotic reactions to the drugs \u2013 hallucinating, delusions and perplexity.\u00a0 Dr. Casey estimated the numbers brought to casualty from city venues had nearly trebled in the past year from a low base.\u00a0 Mr. Stephen Rowen, director of The Rutland Centre in Dublin, said that there has been a \u201cquite alarming\u201d increase in young male clients in the past two years who are \u201cin trouble with cocaine\u201d.\u00a0 Mr. Rowan said cocaine users accounted for up to 10% of people attending the treatments centre\u2019s 6-week abstinence-based residential programme.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Source: Europe Against Drugs (Eurad) 20 June 2002<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dr. Patricia Casey, professor of psychiatry at Dublin\u2019s Mater Hospital, there has been a noticeable increase in attendance at accident and emergency departments by teenagers taking ecstasy and LSD and suffering acute psychotic reactions to the drugs \u2013 hallucinating, delusions and perplexity.\u00a0 Dr. Casey estimated the numbers brought to casualty from city venues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}