EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Substance abuse is an important medico-social problem. Comprehensive management of substance use disorders is of necessity linked to the study of epidemiology. In India we have a reasonable epidemiological data on substance abuse. However, this data base suffers from a number of methodological lacun...

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Autores principales: Basu, Debasish, Mattoo, Surendra K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1999
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21455378
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description Substance abuse is an important medico-social problem. Comprehensive management of substance use disorders is of necessity linked to the study of epidemiology. In India we have a reasonable epidemiological data on substance abuse. However, this data base suffers from a number of methodological lacunae. The present paper discusses these lacunae and makes appropriate recommendations for future generation of epidemiological data on substance abuse in India.
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spelling pubmed-29628392011-03-31 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Basu, Debasish Mattoo, Surendra K. Indian J Psychiatry Research Article Substance abuse is an important medico-social problem. Comprehensive management of substance use disorders is of necessity linked to the study of epidemiology. In India we have a reasonable epidemiological data on substance abuse. However, this data base suffers from a number of methodological lacunae. The present paper discusses these lacunae and makes appropriate recommendations for future generation of epidemiological data on substance abuse in India. Medknow Publications 1999 /pmc/articles/PMC2962839/ /pubmed/21455378 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
title EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
title_full EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
title_fullStr EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
title_full_unstemmed EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
title_short EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN INDIA : METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
title_sort epidemiology of substance abuse in india : methodological issues and future perspectives
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21455378
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