ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE AMONG INTERNEES

The study was designed to assess the various factors pertaining to alcohol and drug abuse among internees with the help of the youth survey questionnaire developed by the WHO. 22.67% of the males indulged in alcohol abuse atleast once a month. Correspondingly cannabis was abused by 9.33% of the boys...

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Autores principales: Ponnudurai, R., Somasundaram, O., Indira, T.P., Gunasekar, P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1984
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965971
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author Ponnudurai, R.
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description The study was designed to assess the various factors pertaining to alcohol and drug abuse among internees with the help of the youth survey questionnaire developed by the WHO. 22.67% of the males indulged in alcohol abuse atleast once a month. Correspondingly cannabis was abused by 9.33% of the boys which is the most commonly abased drug of addiction, followed by sedatives and tranquilizers. The commonest explanation is offered for the non medical drug abuse were, to be sociable, for enjoyment, curiosity and relief of psychological stress. Friends have been the main source of introduction. Most of them reported that it was easy to obtain the drugs like marijuana and amphetamines.
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spelling pubmed-30122182011-10-02 ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE AMONG INTERNEES Ponnudurai, R. Somasundaram, O. Indira, T.P. Gunasekar, P. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The study was designed to assess the various factors pertaining to alcohol and drug abuse among internees with the help of the youth survey questionnaire developed by the WHO. 22.67% of the males indulged in alcohol abuse atleast once a month. Correspondingly cannabis was abused by 9.33% of the boys which is the most commonly abased drug of addiction, followed by sedatives and tranquilizers. The commonest explanation is offered for the non medical drug abuse were, to be sociable, for enjoyment, curiosity and relief of psychological stress. Friends have been the main source of introduction. Most of them reported that it was easy to obtain the drugs like marijuana and amphetamines. Medknow Publications 1984 /pmc/articles/PMC3012218/ /pubmed/21965971 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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ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE AMONG INTERNEES
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