Substance use related emergencies in a tertiary care general hospital setting: Observations and discussion.

Specific data pertaining to substance use related emergencies in the Indian context are sparse and dated.[[3]],[[4]],[[5]] A few studies available on the general psychiatric emergencies have no/minimal representation of substance use patients. This letter aims to discuss a few observations gathered from a retrospective, descriptive analysis of consecutive drug-related emergency psychiatric referrals made from a general hospital emergency department and attended by psychiatry on-call/emergency team over a 13-month period. [Extracted from the article]

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