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Social Hazard among the Two Groups: Alcohol-Intoxication Homeless and Refugees

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of alcoholics from the marginal group of homeless in the after-war period and compare it to their prevalence twenty years before, and the other aim was to compare the group of homeless alcoholics and the group of war-victims, refugees, considering the social hazard that they face. Applying the principle of cross-sectional retrospective study, we have examined the prevalence of homeless and refugees among the intoxicated alcoholics treated in the Intensive care unit for patients acutely intoxicated with alcohol at the University Depasrtment of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, Zagreb, in the period between the years 1998-2000. The number of homeless alcoholics shows the constant trend of decrease, so the social hazard is in a positive correlation with this category of patients treated in the Intensive care unit for patients acutely intoxicated with alcohol compared to the other groups. The social risk is still the highest in the group of homeless, despite the occurrence of the new group of persons socially endangered by war, the refugees.

Homeless; Refugees; Alcohol intoxication; Psychotrauma; Social hazard; War; Croatia

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