New Psychoactive Substances in Intoxicated Patients During the Winter Activities (SkiTox)

Grenoble Alpes University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychoactive Substance Use; Acute Intoxication

Treatments: Other: urine analysis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04155281

2019-A02214-53 (Other Identifier)

38RC19.214

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to identify the New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) that are responsible for intoxicating patients in ski resort during winter activities.

Full description

The New Psychoactive Substances expose to an additional risk of overdose or death due to their potency. These New Psychoactive Substances are used voluntarily by users wishing to test new substances, but also involuntarily because of association (unknowingly users) with more "conventional" drugs such as cocaine or heroin in the self-administered powder. These intoxications are still poorly known and the investigators believe that the identification of New Psychoactive Substances among the drugs consumed, and the association of their consumption with the appearance of a particular symptomatology allow the physician to guide the diagnosis and facilitate the care of future patients.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Admission to emergency, resuscitation or intensive care departments involved in the study
• Anamnestic and / or clinical suspicion of acute drug poisoning according to International Classification of Diseases-10 criteria
• Patient coming from a ski resort from the pre-established list
• urine sample available as part of the treatment
• person understanding French or English
• Non-opposition to the study

Exclusion criteria

• Suspicion of alcohol intoxication alone
• Suspicion of voluntary drug poisoning
• Suspicion of intentional intoxication by others
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women
• Major mentioned in Articles L1121-6 and 1121-8 of french public health code
• Patients in the exclusion period of another research involving the human person type 1 or 2

Trial design

87 participants in 1 patient group

suspicion of intoxication

Description:

New Psychoactive Substances research in urine

Treatment:

Other: urine analysis