[Drug abuse among 4139 medical professionals: field survey, assessment of psychosocial status and analysis of risk factors].

A cluster sampling survey among 4139 subjects was carried out to detect present trend of drug abuse of medical professionals. Higher prevalence rate (2.3%) was found compared with local residents in previous survey by the same authors. The drug of abuse of those positive cases are of the sedative-hypnotic type and benzodiazepine abused most predominantly. PSE, EPQ, reactive features of life events and SDSS were assessed to explore the clinical characteristics of the addicted cases. Adopting Logistic regression with interactive plus stepwise mode, risk factors were analysed. It was clearly revealed that all positive cases do coincide with the rule of iatrogenic drug dependency.