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Club Drugs and Psychiatric Sequelae: An Issue of Vulnerability and Previous Psychiatric History

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  • Giovanni Martinotti

    (Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, Clinical Sciences, University G. d’Annunzio, 66100 Chieti-Pescara, Italy
    Psychopharmacology, Drug Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research Unit, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire AL10 9EU, UK)

  • Cristina Merino Del Villar

    (Can Misses Hospital, Carrer de Corona, s/n, 07800 Eivissa, Illes Balears, Spain)

  • Andrés Garcia Cordoba

    (Emergency Staff Group, Calle Pere Francés 43, 07800 Eivissa, Illes Balears, Spain)

  • Lluís Andrés Tubau

    (Emergency Staff Group, Calle Pere Francés 43, 07800 Eivissa, Illes Balears, Spain)

  • Ivan Castro Sánchez

    (Emergency Staff Group, Calle Pere Francés 43, 07800 Eivissa, Illes Balears, Spain
    Plan Municipal Sobre Drogas, Ayuntamiento de Ibiza, Carrer de Canàries, 35-Edif. CETIS, 1r piso, 07800 Eivissa, Illes Balears, Spain)

  • Francesco Di Carlo

    (Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, Clinical Sciences, University G. d’Annunzio, 66100 Chieti-Pescara, Italy)

  • Stefania Chiappini

    (Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, Clinical Sciences, University G. d’Annunzio, 66100 Chieti-Pescara, Italy
    Psychopharmacology, Drug Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research Unit, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire AL10 9EU, UK)

  • Mauro Pettorruso

    (Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, Clinical Sciences, University G. d’Annunzio, 66100 Chieti-Pescara, Italy)

  • Fabrizio Schifano

    (Psychopharmacology, Drug Misuse and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research Unit, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire AL10 9EU, UK)

  • Massimo Di Giannantonio

    (Department of Neuroscience, Imaging, Clinical Sciences, University G. d’Annunzio, 66100 Chieti-Pescara, Italy)

Abstract

The pursuit of pleasure among clubbers and disco-goers often involves drug use. However, whether substance use may represent a relevant risk factor contributing to the development of psychiatric symptoms and of mental illness remains debated. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the percentage of subjects who developed long-lasting psychiatric symptoms in a sample of subjects reporting use of substances in nightclubs, and to evaluate the role of a previous psychiatric diagnosis in these subjects. Data were collected during three consecutive years in dedicated nursing units inside all the nightclubs of Ibiza, in emergency hospital rooms at the Can Misses Hospital and inside the psychiatric ward. A total of 10,163 subjects required medical assistance inside discos in the medical-nursing units, of which 223 required transfers to hospital emergency rooms. Of these, 110 required subsequent psychiatric hospitalization. Ninety-one (82.7%) of these patients had a positive psychiatric history, which was also found in thirty-one of the 113 subjects (27.4%) not requiring psychiatric hospitalization. Negative psychiatric history was negatively associated with hospitalization (Coefficient = −2.574; p = 0.000) and for subjects with a negative psychiatric history the odds to be hospitalized changed by a factor of 0.076. Gender, age, civil status and nationality were not significant predictors of hospitalization. Overall, the number of subjects who developed major psychiatric disorders appeared to be limited. However, the presence of a psychiatric history here played a crucial role. Club drugs are therefore able to induce psychiatric sequelae requiring hospitalization mainly in subjects who are already vulnerable from a psychopathological point of view.

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  • Giovanni Martinotti & Cristina Merino Del Villar & Andrés Garcia Cordoba & Lluís Andrés Tubau & Ivan Castro Sánchez & Francesco Di Carlo & Stefania Chiappini & Mauro Pettorruso & Fabrizio Schifano & M, 2021. "Club Drugs and Psychiatric Sequelae: An Issue of Vulnerability and Previous Psychiatric History," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(13), pages 1-9, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:13:p:6944-:d:584521
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    1. Danielle Kelly & Karen Hughes & Mark A. Bellis, 2014. "Work Hard, Party Harder: Drug Use and Sexual Behaviour in Young British Casual Workers in Ibiza, Spain," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-11, September.
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    1. Deborah Dal Farra & Alice Valdesalici & Giancarlo Zecchinato & Alfio De Sandre & Diego Saccon & Pierluigi Simonato & Ornella Corazza & Giovanni Martinotti & Andrew L. Smith & Marco Solmi, 2022. "Knowledge and Use of Novel Psychoactive Substances in an Italian Sample with Substance Use Disorders," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(2), pages 1-11, January.

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