Drug rehabilitation

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include sel ...[+++]f-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptoms, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

Former drug user

Misuses drugs (finding)

Does not misuse drugs

Member States’ competent authorities should share between themselves and with the Commission, through the European database on drug precursors (‘the European database’), established under Regulation (EC) No 273/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council , information on seizures and stopped shipments in order to improve the overall level of information on trade in drug precursors, including medicinal products.

Member States’ competent authorities should share between themselves and with the Commission, through the European database on drug precursors (‘the European database’), established under Regulation (EC) No 273/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3), information on seizures and stopped shipments in order to improve the overall level of information on trade in drug precursors, including medicinal products.

The collected information must distinguish adverse reactions due to overdose, misuse, abuse, medication errors, and adverse reactions occurring in the course of studies with the medicinal product or after occupational exposure;

153. Calls for steps to tackle with greater determination issues relating to discrimination, social diversity, the teaching of tolerance in schools, education in healthy living, food education, prevention of the abuse of alcohol, drugs, medicinal and psychotropic products and other intoxicating substances and appropriate education relating to sexual health;