Amphetamine and Other Non-opioid Drug Users Attending a Special Drug Dependence Clinic
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Amphetamine and other non-opioid drug users attending a special drug dependence clinic.
This paper reports the findings in 104 users of nonopioid drugs (mainly amphetamines) attending a drug dependence clinic in London between March 1968 and February 1969 in relation to demographic characteristics, forensic, psychiatric, and medical histories, clinical groups, management policy, and the use of biochemical tests for the presence of drugs in the urine.Nearly one-third gave a history...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5809.322