Tweekers make up 15% of the ER traffic at Hawaii hospital – IOTW Report

Tweekers make up 15% of the ER traffic at Hawaii hospital

Hawai’i Free Press:

Amphetamine users require more hospital resources, UH study

Psychiatry faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) recently published findings on the effect of methamphetamine use on emergency department resources. Amphetamine-positive patients spent more time per visit on average in the emergency department and were more likely to require medication and physical restraints, compared to amphetamine-negative patients.

The researchers from JABSOM examined visits from 2007 to 2011 to an emergency room of a single Honolulu hospital. Overall, out of 16,018 patients, 15.1 percent of the drug-screened patients tested positive for amphetamines over the study period.

The rate of patients who tested positive for amphetamine was measured and broken down by year. Researchers measured how long the person was treated in the emergency room, whether medication or physical restraints were needed for patient and staff safety, and how many of the patients required psychiatric hospitalization.  more

 

6 Comments on Tweekers make up 15% of the ER traffic at Hawaii hospital

  1. “…The researchers from JABSOM examined visits from 2007 to 2011 to an emergency room of a single Honolulu hospital.”

    December of 2018 here.
    This isn’t news, it is archeology. Probably published for some sociological reason in promotion of socialist medical practices. Their figures/percentages are very optimistic in the light of the world today. It is worse than what they present.

    “Psychiatry faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi”
    SInce they are selling 7 year old viewpoints as gospel, how about if someone quickly asks them how many genders there are.
    Why is something like this published now? Such data would not be accepted in academia (or at least it didn’t used to be), due to age. My guess is that, while academia won’t accept it, they will sell it to the public, regardless.

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