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Treatment of acute nociceptive pain in patients with opioid substitution therapy (OST) is an actual topic. The clinical features of this population, as pain sensibility, and the pharmacological features of OST, require an individualized care which must be adjusted to the patient's pain and the OST used. This article offers a summary of the main possible pharmacological strategies by highlighting the features of pain in these patients and removing the barriers to an effective management. Generally, the OST is kept and a multimodal analgesia is added according to the intensity of the pain. Multimodal analgesia includes non pharmacological measures, non opioid drugs and/or opioid drugs which must be chosen according to the OST. Collaboration between different health professionals provides an effective management of pain in order to protect this vulnerable population from the negative health consequences of an insufficiently relieved pain., Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.

Unlabelled: The aim of our study is to evaluate the extent of agreement between pharmacodependence to benzodiazepines, as diagnosed by doctors and as self evaluated by patients, using DSM-IV dependence criteria. Method. This is a prospective study., Inclusion Criteria: prescription of a benzodiazepines or related substances., Data Collection: doctor questionnaire and patient questionnaire filled anonymously and independently. Main judgment criterion: rate of agreement between doctor diagnosis (is this patient dependent?), and patient evaluation (dependence is positive if at least 3 of the DSM-IV items are met). Results. One hundred and twenty-eight patients were included by 11 doctors: 89 (69.5%) cases of agreement between doctor diagnosis and patient self evaluation and 39 (30.5%) cases of disagreement Discussion. There is an over assessment of dependence: doctors diagnose a dependence in 72% of the disagreement cases although there is none according to the self evaluation; the over assessment shows how difficult it is to evaluate dependence in general practice medicine., (© 2012 Société Française de Pharmacologie et de Thérapeutique.)

Object: Epidemiological study on addictive disorders during pregnancy., Methods: An epidemiological study about addictive disorders has been led in the maternity of the University Hospital of Nantes in 2008 on a sample of 300 women, just after childbirth. The prevalence of consumption of drugs was assessed on declared consumption of legal and illegal substances and on the Fagerström questionnaire, the AUDIT questionnaire and the CAST questionnaire. Diagnostic of eating disorders was based on DSM IV criteria of mental anorexia and bulimia nervosa., Results: At the beginning of pregnancy, 34% of women used tobacco, 63% alcohol and 8% cannabis. Among the women of the study 0.7% had criteria for mental anorexia, 2.3% for bulimia nervosa and 9% for sub clinic forms. After the first trimester, 22% of women declared using tobacco, 20% alcohol and 3% cannabis. The use of various drugs during pregnancy concerned 6.3% of women, and 38% used at least one drug after the first trimester., Conclusion: The high prevalence of addictive disorders during pregnancy should incite professional of prenatal care to improve their screening methodology and not only when tobacco or alcohol is suspected., (Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)