Unintentional alcohol and drug poisoning in association with substance use disorders and mood and anxiety disorders: results from the 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample

Abstract

SUDs and mood/anxiety disorders are key risk factors for unintentional poisoning by alcohol and drugs among inpatients in the USA. Effective treatments of these disorders should be targeted as poisoning prevention efforts. Future studies are needed to clarify a potential bias in the data due to differential inpatient mental condition screening practices.

Predictors of Unintentionally Severe Harm During Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury

“…For example, Yoon, Chen, and Yi (2014) reported that individuals with increased levels of substance dependence were more likely to accidentally overdose. For example, Yoon, Chen, and Yi (2014) reported that individuals with increased levels of substance dependence were more likely to accidentally overdose.…”

“…Previous researchers have not explored this specific association, but the finding corresponds well with literature in the substance abuse field. For example, Yoon, Chen, and Yi (2014) reported that individuals with increased levels of substance dependence were more likely to accidentally overdose. In their study, dependence was defined as the presence of at least three of the following symptoms: withdrawal, tolerance, inability to control intake, compulsion to take the substance, continued use despite adverse effects, and increasing time-consuming nature of use.…”

Mental disorder and opioid overdose: a systematic review

“…Eleven studies had fatal overdose as the outcome or drew their sample from a population who had experienced fatal overdose [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Thirteen included only non-fatal overdose as the sole overdose outcome in their studies [15,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50], and twelve articles included both fatal and non-fatal overdose [51-60, 63, 64]. Two studies included data from emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations for overdose but did not specify whether the overdoses were fatal or not [61,62].…”

“…Two studies included data from emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations for overdose but did not specify whether the overdoses were fatal or not [61,62]. Most studies either did not report intention of overdose (n = 17) [15, 33, 35, 39-41, 46, 48, 51-53, 58, 59, 61-64] or examined both intentional and unintentional overdose (n = 17) [30-32, 36-38, 42-45, 47, 49, 54-57, 60] with four examining only unintentional overdose [28,29,34,50]. Many studies (n = 20) included overdose that was attributable to prescription and non-prescription opioids [29, 32, 35-37, 41-47, 49, 50, 56-58, 60, 63, 64], while eleven investigated only prescription opioid overdoses [28, 33, 34, 38, 48, 51-54, 61, 62] and two investigated only non-prescription opioid overdoses [15,39].…”

Risk Factors for Overdose in Treatment-Seeking Youth With Substance Use Disorders

“…3 Most ODs occur in individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and over half of individuals medically hospitalized in 2010 for an unintentional alcohol or drug poisoning had a SUD. 4 …”