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Commentary Relationships among medical and nonmedical uses of pharmacologically active agents
Author(s) -
Estes J. Worth,
Johnson Malcolm
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt1971126883
Subject(s) - aspirin , medicine , psychoactive substance , drug , psychoactive drug , psychiatry , pharmacology
Psychoactive drug use was admitted by 14 per cent of 328 high school students (a 22 per cent sample) in a suburban town. The incidences of alcohol use, intoxication, smoking, and self‐medication with aspirin were severalfold greater. The frequency of nonmedical psychoactive drug use by the students was associated with the frequency with which they took aspirin.