The Spectrum of Intoxication Among Adolescents

Abstract

Among adolescents, acute intoxications caused by drugs as well as intoxications caused by toxic substances make up an important chapter of emergency pediatric pathology. We conducted a retrospective study carried out for a period of 1 year, 2021–2022, which included a number of 37 patients, admitted in the Pediatric Clinic of the County Clinical Hospital “Sfântul Apostol Andrei” Constanța. Out of the total of admissions during a 12 months period, 0,5% consisted in acute intoxications in adolescents. There is a higher tendency for substance intoxication in females (65,5% of total cases). There is a higher tendency for adolescents with suicide ideation to use substances in order to end their life because of multiple risk factors, mental health disorders putting them at a higher risk to attempt suicide. Alcohol is widely used.