PREMORBID DRUG USE
Variable 192a1
date of last revision: 01/01/06
DEFINITION:
Indices of drug use and abuse prior to injury: During the year before your injury, did you use any illicit or non-prescription drugs? *"Non-prescription drugs" refers to non-prescribed prescription drugs and street drugs.
CODE:
1 No
2 Yes
0 Variable not in existence when data collected for this case
9 Unknown

(DELETED Items 1a-f about specific drugs)
CHARACTERS:
1 numeric
NOTE:
Use patient's response, even if response contradicts other information. This is a self-report variable.

If cannot get patient's response, get family, if not family then medical chart.

*A report on substance use that is based on TBIMS data can be found on COMBI: Problematic Substance Use Identified in the TBIMS National Dataset (http://www.tbims.org/combi/subst/index.html)
EXAMPLE:
EXAMPLE #1: Person with brain injury used crack and marijuana.

(1) 2

EXAMPLE #2: Person with brain injury did not use any ilicit/non-prescription drugs.

(1) 1

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