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KMID : 0374919920130010073
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Inje Medical Journal
1992 Volume.13 No. 1 p.73 ~ p.82
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A Study on Drug Abusers in Pusan Area
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Abstract
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This study was carried out to identify characteristics of drug abusers who were treated and discharged from 1 July 1988 to 30 June 1990 in the Department of Neuropsychiatry, the Pusan Municipal Medical Centre.
The subjects were composed of 351 patients who were discharged during the period of the study Data for the study were obtained from the subjects' medical records of the Centre.
@ES The results are as follows:
@EN 1. 40.2% of the subjects were in the 30-39 age group and 77.8% of them were in the 20's and 30's
2. 90.9% of the subjects exposed to narcotics at ages of 19-39. It is observed that there is an increasing tendency of drug abuse in teen-agers
3. 82.3% of the subjects were exposed to natorics by either friends or peers.
4. 70.0% of the subjects agreed that the primary motive to take narcotics was inducement or curiosity.
5. 76.3% of the subjects took narcotics 1 or 2 times per day. 15.6% 3 times, 4.2% 5 times.
6. 70.0% of the subjects bought narcotics from peddlers. 29.7% from dens of addicts, only 0.3% from pharmacy.
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