Open AccessHigh Rates of Substance Abuse among Long-term Travelers to the Tropics: an Interventional Study
Author(s) -
Alona Paz,
Siegal Sadetzki,
Israel Potasman
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of travel medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1708-8305
pISSN - 1195-1982
DOI - 10.2310/7060.2004.17047
Subject(s) - medicine , substance abuse , drug , odds ratio , tropics , travel medicine , intervention (counseling) , environmental health , psychiatry , fishery , biology
Drug abuse constitutes a worldwide problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of illicit drug use during long-term travel to the tropics, and to estimate the effects of antidrug brochures provided before travel on the use of drugs during travel.
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