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THE LANGTON CLINIC CLIENTELE: SOCIAL & DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENT PATIENTS
Author(s) -
Stanhope John M.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian alcohol/drug review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0726-4550
DOI - 10.1080/09595238380000311
Subject(s) - drug , marital status , medicine , psychiatry , alcohol , population , environmental health , biochemistry , chemistry
One year's experience of patients admitted to the Langton Clinic for the first time in 1980–81 is reviewed. Alcohol was the principal or only drug abused by 388 patients, and was abused conjointly with other drugs by 58 patients; 188 patients abused other drugs, but not alcohol. Various sub‐cultural groups were suspected from the distribution of drug used, sex, age, religion and country of birth. Patients were characterized by social, marital and employment difficulties rather than physical and psychiatric morbidity.