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Most surveys of drug dependence are based mainly on hospital admissions, thus saying very little about the prevalence of the disorder In the general community or among ,non-hospitalized patients. The present study examines the prevalence of drugtaking among six groups of Indlvlduals-psychiatric In-patients and out-patients, medical' and surgical In-patients and out-patients, patients attending a number of general practitioners' surgeries, and a group of healthy subjects attending a clinic for routine chest X-ray examination. About 500 people in each group were interviewed, but they were not matched for age and sex. However, It was possible to draw matched samples from the six groups for intergroup comparison. In general it was found that whereas there was a high prevalence of barbiturate dependence In all patient groups, the prevalence of amphetamine and narcotic dependence was very small. Considerable numbers of people In all groups showed varying degrees of dependence on common anal'geslc preparations. The most severely affected patients were found In the two groups of psychiatric patients, who also had made attempts at suicide In the past. We noted with Interest the small number

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Author

M. J. Abrahams; J. Armstrong; F. A. Whitlock

Publisher

AMPCo

Published

1970

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences