AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF DRUG ABUSE IN URBAN POPULATION OF MADHYA PRADESH

The present epidemiological survey was carried out to estimate the prevalence and pattern of drug abuse in urban population of Madhya Pradesh because such studies were lacking from this state. In the population of 5326, we found that 38.6% were current users. In order of frequency, the drugs used we...

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Autores principales: Ghulam, R., Rahman, I., Naqvi, S., Gupta, S.R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1996
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2970835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584124
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author Ghulam, R.
Rahman, I.
Naqvi, S.
Gupta, S.R.
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description The present epidemiological survey was carried out to estimate the prevalence and pattern of drug abuse in urban population of Madhya Pradesh because such studies were lacking from this state. In the population of 5326, we found that 38.6% were current users. In order of frequency, the drugs used were - tobacco (36.8%), alcohol (26.5%), painkillers (9.8%), cannabis (4.1%), tranquilizers (2.4%) and opium (1.6%). Among tobacco users, 52.4% were using gudakhu.
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spelling pubmed-29708352011-05-16 AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF DRUG ABUSE IN URBAN POPULATION OF MADHYA PRADESH Ghulam, R. Rahman, I. Naqvi, S. Gupta, S.R. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The present epidemiological survey was carried out to estimate the prevalence and pattern of drug abuse in urban population of Madhya Pradesh because such studies were lacking from this state. In the population of 5326, we found that 38.6% were current users. In order of frequency, the drugs used were - tobacco (36.8%), alcohol (26.5%), painkillers (9.8%), cannabis (4.1%), tranquilizers (2.4%) and opium (1.6%). Among tobacco users, 52.4% were using gudakhu. Medknow Publications 1996 /pmc/articles/PMC2970835/ /pubmed/21584124 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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title_sort epidemiological study of drug abuse in urban population of madhya pradesh
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