Caffeine and nicotine use in an addicted population

Journal of Addictive Diseases
L R HaysW Miller

Abstract

This study was undertaken to examine differences in caffeine and nicotine use between the psychiatric population and the addicted population in a private psychiatric inpatient facility. Eighty-six patients on an adult addictive disease inpatient unit and 80 patients on an adult psychiatry unit in a private psychiatric hospital were interviewed with regard to their use of nicotine and caffeine. In addition, demographic information and primary diagnoses were obtained from the psychiatric admission assessment in the medical record as listed by the admitting psychiatrist. Although there was little difference in psychiatric patients vs. chemically dependent patients with regard to the percentage of caffeine users, the chemically dependent individuals drank more coffee, soft drinks, and tea. A much greater percentage of the chemically dependent individuals also smoked cigarettes, although not in a greater amount than the psychiatric patients who smoked. Because group assignment was not random, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses were conducted to determine the independent associations of age, sex, education, and treatment population in predicting levels of caffeine and tobacco use. Even after controlling for demographic ...Continue Reading

References

Sep 1, 1992·The American Journal of Psychiatry·D C GoffE Amico
Jan 1, 1989·International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part A, Applied Radiation and Isotopes·T N van der WaltP J Fourie
Jul 1, 1995·Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association·P S Appelbaum
Jan 1, 1994·Journal of Substance Abuse·L M IrvingG F Brenner
Mar 1, 1995·The American Journal of Psychiatry·J de LeonG M Simpson
Aug 1, 1994·Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research·R D HurtB K Bruce
Jan 1, 1993·General Hospital Psychiatry·N E TaylorP Friedman
Apr 1, 1993·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·K M MayoC A Jones
Aug 1, 1996·Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association·J VelascoS Lippmann

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Citations

Apr 29, 1998·Journal of Addictive Diseases·B Stimmel, M S Gold
Feb 10, 2016·Neurotoxicity Research·Javier A MuñizVeronica Bisagno
Sep 11, 2003·Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research·Shawn R CurrieSonya Malhotra
May 31, 2006·Birth·Grace ChangLouise Wilkins-Haug
Nov 1, 2005·The American Journal on Addictions·Ivan D MontoyaHarold Alan Pincus
Mar 19, 2020·Pain Medicine : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine·Ameer GhodkePaul R Chelminski

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Addiction

This feed focuses mechanisms underlying addiction and addictive behaviour including heroin and opium dependence, alcohol intoxication, gambling, and tobacco addiction.