DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS

The Indian literature related to drug abuse in general and Cannabis in particular has been reviewed and possible implications discussed. In this regard to solve the existing controversy, 50 pure chronic cannabis users were evaluated for their physical, mental, cognitive and socio economic functions...

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Autores principales: Sethi, B.B., Tiwari, S.C., Kumar, Pradeep, Trivedi, J.K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1984
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965957
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author Sethi, B.B.
Tiwari, S.C.
Kumar, Pradeep
Trivedi, J.K.
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description The Indian literature related to drug abuse in general and Cannabis in particular has been reviewed and possible implications discussed. In this regard to solve the existing controversy, 50 pure chronic cannabis users were evaluated for their physical, mental, cognitive and socio economic functions and the results were compared with a matched control group. Results of this study did not reveal any impairment in these areas It is concluded that cannabis, in India, may not be as much injurious to health as has often been mentioned in Western Countries. Future areas of research have been suggested.
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spelling pubmed-30122542011-10-02 DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS Sethi, B.B. Tiwari, S.C. Kumar, Pradeep Trivedi, J.K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The Indian literature related to drug abuse in general and Cannabis in particular has been reviewed and possible implications discussed. In this regard to solve the existing controversy, 50 pure chronic cannabis users were evaluated for their physical, mental, cognitive and socio economic functions and the results were compared with a matched control group. Results of this study did not reveal any impairment in these areas It is concluded that cannabis, in India, may not be as much injurious to health as has often been mentioned in Western Countries. Future areas of research have been suggested. Medknow Publications 1984 /pmc/articles/PMC3012254/ /pubmed/21965957 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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DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS
title DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS
title_full DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS
title_fullStr DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS
title_full_unstemmed DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS
title_short DRUG ABUSE IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CANNABIS
title_sort drug abuse in india: an overview with special reference to cannabis
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