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U69.32: Secondary codes for mode of consumption of psychotropic substances in mental and behavioural disorders due to use of such substances: Intravenous consumption of other psychotropic substances

You are taking, or have taken drugs and this is affecting your behavior or mental health.

Drugs are substances that can change behavior, mood, and perception. There are various kinds of drugs.

Drugs can cause intoxication. This kind of intoxication alters thinking, feeling, behavior and perception. There are different ways of taking drugs. For example, they can be injected into a blood vessel, smoked, swallowed as a tablet or sniffed through the nose, for example.

You can become addicted to drugs. Drugs can also damage the body. Drugs can also result in the behavior of a person changing beyond the drug intoxication or them developing mental illnesses. These mental illnesses can also cause changes in behavior, but also changes in mood, thinking and perception, for example.

Additional indicator

On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.

  • G: Confirmed diagnosis
  • V: Tentative diagnosis
  • Z: Condition after
  • A: Excluded diagnosis
  • L: Left
  • R: Right
  • B: Both sides

Further information

Note

This information is not intended for self-diagnosis and does not replace professional medical advice from a doctor. If you find an ICD code on a personal medical document, please also note the additional indicator used for diagnostic confidence.
Your doctor will assist you with any health-related questions and explain the ICD diagnosis code to you in a direct consultation if necessary.

Source

Provided by the non-profit organization “Was hab’ ich?” gemeinnützige GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).