The Role of Drugs in Alcohol Poisoning and Blackout Events: A Latent Class Analysis of a Residential Treatment Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol can lead to fatal and nonfatal overdose (OD) through its neurobiological inhibitory effects when used alone or with other drugs. Little research has examined alcohol OD characteristics in the context of concomitant drug use.

Methods

This study utilized alcohol OD data (defined as alcohol poisoning, passing out, or blacking out) collected in a large residential addiction treatment facility (N = 660). Latent class analysis identified classes of alcohol OD events based on concomitant drug use at the time of OD. We evaluated correlates of alcohol OD classes, including depression, emergency medical services, and hospitalization, using latent class regression.

Results

Only 20% of alcohol ODs involved alcohol alone. Marijuana was the most commonly used dru

SUBMITTER: Fernandez AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6824947 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature