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Self‐Reported Unpleasant Effects from Illicit Use of Fourteen Substances
Author(s) -
Patterson Carroll D.
Publication year - 1974
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.1360-0443.1974.tb01311.x
Subject(s) - heroin , illicit drug , substance use , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , drug
Over a six month period, 19,948 new military inductees were confidentially surveyed about their previous illicit usage of fourteen substances. Of these men, 6,203 (32%) indicated usage, at least once, of one or more of the fourteen substances. Of the 6,203 users, sixteen percent reported that they had experienced an unpleasant effect from their drug use upon one or more occasions. The substance most often mentioned as causing unpleasant effects was LSD, followed at some distance, in second and third place, by heroin and STP. The average number of other drugs used by those reporting unpleasant effects varied from 7.6 in the heroin users to 1.4 in the marihuana users.