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Diagnosis concept

Dependent drug abuse

One diagnosis code, shared across patients.

Provenance
Code
6525002
  • 478 patients
  • 4.2% of all patients
  • #81 of 778 across all diagnoses, by patients
  • 478 recorded episodes

Coding

System
SNOMED-CT

What treats it

procedure concept Rehabilitation therapy
12,987 procedures

Counted over the prescriptions and procedures that recorded this diagnosis as their reason.

What else these patients have

diagnosis concept Overdose
94% of these patients· 4% of all patients
diagnosis concept Chronic intractable migraine without aura
71% of these patients· 4% of all patients
diagnosis concept Impacted molars
72% of these patients· 4% of all patients
diagnosis concept Only received primary school education
42% of these patients· 7% of all patients
diagnosis concept Homeless
6% of these patients· 1% of all patients

Of the 478 patients with this diagnosis, the share who also carry each one, against how common it is across all patients.

Age at first diagnosis

Dependent drug abuse: median 27 across all diagnoses: median 35

Age at first diagnosis Bar chart. Age at first diagnosis. 478 patients in all; the largest group is 20 to 29 with 143; Dependent drug abuse: median 27 years; across all diagnoses: median 35 years. 0 50 100 10 to 19: 128 patients 20 to 29: 143 patients 30 to 39: 85 patients 40 to 49: 57 patients 50 to 59: 28 patients 60 to 69: 14 patients 70 to 79: 15 patients 80 to 89: 6 patients 90 and over: 2 patients 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 years
Half of these patients were 27 or older. Across all diagnoses, half were 35 or older. The 20 to 29 hold the most, 143 patients. A few first diagnoses are back-dated into infancy, and some conditions are handed an age by the decade, which draws a spike rather than a spread.

How long it stays on the record

How long it stays on the record Bar chart. How long it stays on the record. 7 categories; the largest is no end recorded with 478 episodes. no end recorded: 478 episodes no end recorded 478 a week or less: 0 episodes a week or less 0 up to a month: 0 episodes up to a month 0 up to three months: 0 episodes up to three months 0 up to a year: 0 episodes up to a year 0 one to five years: 0 episodes one to five years 0 over five years: 0 episodes over five years 0
478 episodes in all. “No end recorded” is an episode the generator never closed, not one known to be ongoing.