DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY: Faculty discover over 15% of ER patients show signs of crystal methamphetamine use
December 14, 2018 — Doctors from the UHP/JABSOM Psychiatry examined visits from 2007 to 2011 to an Emergency Department, or “ED”, which also is commonly referred to as an emergency room, in a single urban Honolulu hospital. Overall, out of 16,018 patients screened for drugs, just over 15 percent (15.1%) of them tested positive for amphetamines.