HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE

Socio-demographic and clinical profile of the first one hundred and five patients attending a de-addiction clinic of New Delhi for heroin dependence is presented. It reveals a sudden rise of Heroin use in young educated males, probably because of its easy availability and its decreasing prices in th...

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Autores principales: Adityanjee, Mohan, D., Saxena, S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1984
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21966005
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description Socio-demographic and clinical profile of the first one hundred and five patients attending a de-addiction clinic of New Delhi for heroin dependence is presented. It reveals a sudden rise of Heroin use in young educated males, probably because of its easy availability and its decreasing prices in the last few years. This trend is likely to be observed in the other metropolitan cities of India as well. Need for strengthening of preventive, curative and rehabilitative services is emphasized.
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spelling pubmed-30111922011-10-02 HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE Adityanjee, Mohan, D. Saxena, S. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Socio-demographic and clinical profile of the first one hundred and five patients attending a de-addiction clinic of New Delhi for heroin dependence is presented. It reveals a sudden rise of Heroin use in young educated males, probably because of its easy availability and its decreasing prices in the last few years. This trend is likely to be observed in the other metropolitan cities of India as well. Need for strengthening of preventive, curative and rehabilitative services is emphasized. Medknow Publications 1984 /pmc/articles/PMC3011192/ /pubmed/21966005 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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HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE
title HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE
title_full HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE
title_fullStr HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE
title_full_unstemmed HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE
title_short HEROIN DEPENDENCE : THE NEW DELHI EXPERIENCE
title_sort heroin dependence : the new delhi experience
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011192/
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