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Drug Taking Amongst Emotionally Disturbed University Students
Author(s) -
Duddle May
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01238.x
Subject(s) - cannabis , heroin , psychiatry , drug , psychology , clinical psychology , addiction , incidence (geometry) , amphetamine , medicine , physics , neuroscience , dopamine , optics
Summary Out of 109 undergraduate students seen at a psychiatric clinic 26 (23.9%) had tried cannabis, 21 taking it regularly; 15 (13.8%) had tried L.S.D. and 3 had used other drugs including heroin and amphetamine. Students who used drugs tended to have friends who were also users and estimated that a high proportion of all University students took drugs (48.9%) whereas non‐users had few friends who took drugs and estimated that only 14.4% of the whole University were drug takers. There was no evidence that taking cannabis increased the incidence or severity of psychiatric illness amongst students.