Older Adults and Illegal Drugs

Older Drug Users in an Inner City Universe: A Recent Engrossment. In our descriptive work of an inner city group above age 50 seen in the Emergency brake Division of one of the John R. Major hospitals in Los Angeles, and scrutiny film for illegal drugs in the section from February through December 2001, several interesting factors emerged. Cocaine with or without another illegal drug was the overwhelming drug of selection, but this may have reflected the cardiovascular morbidness of this drug, activity more older adults to seek parking brake room communication. Three-fourths of subjects were age 50 to 65, but the oldest user was a somebody aged 90. Four percent of users were aged above 80. Cocaine users tended to be younger, and more likely to be cigarette smokers, with two-thirds of users indulging in this drug abuse as well. Over half used inebriant. Benzodiazepine users tended to be least likely to use cigarettes and drinkable. The drugs of usage with which we must be medically concerned include but are not limited to cocaine, amphetamines, marijuana, benzodiazepines, and narcotics. Fifty-nine per cent of illegal drug users in the ED had a star cardiovascular diagnosis given in the ED, whereas only 10% of non–drug abusing older adults were given a similar ED diagnosis. Two-thirds of ED patients with nub exercise were male, one-third were mortal. The fact that more females are likely to survive in old age may have given females a greater whole number base from which to be drawn. Nonetheless there were a few older women who might be described by the cliché "sweet old grannies" who tested film and would hardly have been suspected of illegal drug use. Phencyclidine (PCP) linguistic communication was rare.