TY  - JOUR
TT  - .  DETECTION FREQUENCY OF SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS ‘’BONZAI’’ IN URINE, A FOUR YEAR REVIEW
AU  - Turan Sönmez, Feruza
AU  - Güneş, Harun
AU  - Canga, Halit Berk
AU  - Kandiş, Hayati
AU  - Sarıtaş, Ayhan
PY  - 2017
DA  - February
JF  - The Turkish Journal Of Occupational / Environmental Medicine and Safety
JO  - turjoem
PB  - Engin TUTKUN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-4711
SP  - 56
EP  - 56
VL  - Volume 2
IS  - İssue 1 (1)
KW  - .  DETECTION FREQUENCY OF SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS ‘’BONZAI’’ IN URINE
N2  - In recent years, use of synthetic cannabinoids hasbeen frequently observed in population. There are many articles about thehistory, type and pharmaco-chemical properties of synthetic cannabinoids in theliterature; however the number of articles about the frequency of theirdetection is limited. Because drug abuse is modern disaster of populations,requirement of definition of risk groups occurred, and we tried to define therisk population in our city.The reports of Duzce University Hospital wereretrospectively reviewed. Scan of laboratory codes‘’ bonzai drug level’’ was performed. Positive reportsfor presence of synthetic cannabinoids ‘’bonzai’’ in urine were investigated.Demographic features as number of patients, gender, mean of age and seasonaldistribution were determined.During 4 year period through 2012-2015, 5374 patientswere evaluated for bonsai use suspicion. Of totally 335 patients with urinebonsai detected positive (UBDP), 58 were under 18 years old (%17.31).  The average age of UBDP patients was 25(14-60 years). The average age of UBDP patients was 33, 31, 26 and 25 for eachyear through 2012-2015 respectively. Male majority was detected; 56 male and 2females were under 18 years old, and 270 male and 7 females were over 18 yearsold.The number and diversity of bonsai use have increasedsignificantly in the drug market in recent years. This has led to morewidespread and younger population use of the drug, which we can dramaticallyobserve referring to the records.
CR  - Duzce University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/turjoem/article/304021
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/291088
ER  -