USO DE DROGAS PSICOTRÓPICAS POR POLICIAIS MILITARES DE GOIÂNIA E APARECIDA DE GOIÂNIA, GOIÁS, BRASIL
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2009-07-01
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Licit drugs like alcohol, and illicit drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, opioids and
amphetamines, are used by millions of people worldwide. The damage to health
occurring due to the acute or chronic, and also due to psychomotor and
behavioral changes that these substances cause the users. A situation that
deserves special attention is the use of drugs in the workplace, especially in
enterprises and institutions in need of constant concentration and emotional
balance in labor activities. Thus the objective of this study was to determine the
survey of psychotropic drug use among Military Police members in the state of
Goiás, Brazil, and correlate it with the frequency in society in general. This study
was done by the application of a questionnaire and toxicological analysis of
urine samples collected at the beginning of the work day, for the detection of
cannabinoids, cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamine, opiates and
benzodiazepines. Study carried out from March to October 2008 in 12 Military
Police units in the municipalities of Goiânia and Aparecida de Goiânia. Voluntary
participants (n = 221) were interviewed about drug use employing a
questionnaire especially designed by the Centro Brasileiro de Informações
sobre Drogas Psicotrópicas (CEBRID). Data were analyzed by descriptive
statistics to determine the frequency of licit and illicit drug use. The frequency of
use was: lifetime tobacco 39.9%; alcohol 87.8%; cannabis 8.1%; cocaine
1.8%; stimulants 7.2%; solvents 10.0%; sedatives, anxiolytics,
antidepressants 6.8%; LSD 0.5%; Bentyl® 0.5%; anabolic steroids 5.4%;
last year use tobacco 15.4%; alcohol 72.9%; stimulants 6.3%; solvents
0.5%; sedatives, anxiolytics, antidepressants 3.7%; use in the past 30 days
tobacco 14.5%; alcohol 57.5%; stimulants 5.0%; solvents 0.5; sedatives,
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anxiolytics, antidepressants 3.7%. The prevalence of psychotropic drug use
found for Military Police members in the state of Goiás, Brazil, is similar to the
results of national and international surveys with civilians, showing that the
former are at similar risk to become users of legal and illegal drugs. Moreover,
299 samples of urine was submitted to toxicological analysis by
immunochromatographic screening tests; whose positive results for
cannabinoids and amphetamines, were referred for confirmation by GC / MS.
Thus, the results were as follows: 0.33% of samples positive for amphetamine,
0.67% of samples positive for cannabinoids, 1.34% for benzodiazepines and
97.66% negative. Thus the total percentage of positive samples were 2.34%.
The research carried out by military police with voluntary form showed that
military and civil community in general, are subject to similar risks of abuse of
licit and illicit drugs and it is an alert to development of testing drugs in the
workplace, to avoid the consequences arising from the consumption of
psychoactive substances
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COSTA, Sérgio Henrique Nascente. PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG USE BY POLICE
MILITARY Goiânia and Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás,
BRAZIL. 2009. 162 f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciencias da Saude) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2009.