[Identification of drug misuse. Study of spontaneous notifications of adverse drug events in a regional safety reporting centre].

Introduction: The misuse of drugs, common practice for some, is a source of iatrogenic diseases and considerable supplementary costs in hospital budgets. The aim of this study was to quantify the number of adverse events (AE) related to the misuse of drugs.

Methods: This was a study conducted on 200 new validated AE case reports.