*4.1.4. Indicator: comorbidity*

less than a year, there is a slight growth of the period of demand of the specialized services: most of the beneficiaries who have never been admitted in the treatment, have required medical assistance after 3 years of drug consumption, comparative to the cases of relapse, in which most of the patients have demanded medical assistance after 2 years of drug consumption [20].

**Figure 2.** Proportion of the patients according to the age at the beginning of the drug consumption.

Regarding the category of age, the groups of ages between 26 and 30 years and 31–35 years are pinpointed as follows. We can notice that these groups of ages are distinctly different from the most frequent categories in case of the age at the onset of heroin use (15–20 years

More than half of the patients (58.83%, 48/82) do not have an occupation, and the others have only a temporary occupation. Only one patient of the group has graduated a private faculty; all the others have graduated high or secondary school. Around 17% of the patients have legal antecedents, respectively detention, because they stole in order to get money for drugs.

Psychologically, the drug addicts have problems because they do not have a permanent job; on the other hand, they are not able to keep a permanent job, because the withdrawal and the

relapses prevented them from doing it; it is a vicious circle with no break.

and 21–26 years.

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*4.1.3. Indicator: occupation*

A proportion of 70.7% of the target patients are proven to have the virus of the hepatitis C (HCV), hepatitis B (HBV), or HIV. Some of the patients have declared the common use of the syringes, this being the explanation of their infection. Two of the patients have got cardiac arrhythmia and are under adequate treatment. Four of the patients have got post-injection thrombophlebitis. Two of them have received a recommendation of treatment with acenocoumarole. Some of the patients had different forms of psychic disturbances, ranging from anxious depression to personality disturbance of mixed type; three of these patients were previously hospitalized in Psychiatric Hospitals.
