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Profile of narcotic abuse in peninsula Malaysia
- Source :
- The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse. 7(2)
- Publication Year :
- 1980
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Abstract
- Demographic and drug abuse characteristics of 3,484 new drug abuse contacts presenting to the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are reported. The large majority were heroin inhalers. They were different from the traditional Eastern opium inhalers and similar to Western heroin injectors in that they were young, male, single, and frequently unemployed. These features and the relative underrepresentation of Chinese suggest that the Chinese of this study did not learn narcotic abuse from opium-smoking relatives.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Employment
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Adolescent
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Heroin
Peninsula
medicine
Humans
General hospital
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Kuala lumpur
Traditional medicine
business.industry
Malaysia
Opium
medicine.disease
Opioid-Related Disorders
Substance abuse
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Socioeconomic Factors
Family medicine
Income
Narcotic abuse
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00952990
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....56d4768a3e886fb19a038df84b44e790