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D Mohan

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PubMed1981

Relative risk of adolescent drug abuse: Part I. Socio-demographic and interpersonal variables.

This study was carried out on a sample of 254 male senior high school students in New Delhi. The authors found that variables contributing significantly to drug use were age, heterosexual dating, drug abuse among family members and drug abuse among friends. However, drug use was not found to be significantly associated with family income, father's occupation, family structure and place of residence. Since the sample studied was relatively small, additional confirmation is needed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Relative risk of adolescent drug abuse: Part II. Intrapsychic variables.

The total sample size for the study of intrapsychic variables was 252 (152 non-drug users and 100 life-time users including 69 current users). Using a multiphasic personality questionnaire, the Eysenck personality inventory and an orientation questionnaire, the authors found that high orientation, extraversion, anxiety and psychopathic deviate scores were associated with a relative risk of drug use. No significant difference is reported between the mean scores of users and non-users on mania, paranoia, depression, schizophrenia, hysteria and neuroticism.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Chloroquine psychosis: a chemical psychosis?

Psychotic states are mimicked by the use of many drugs including amphetamines, cannabis, lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin, mescaline, isoniazid, and L-dopa. A paranoid psychotic picture in a clear sensorium is characteristic of amphetamine psychosis. In developing countries, malaria among other diseases is a frequent indicator of chloroquine administration. The present communication reports a series of chloroquine-induced psychosis in a clear sensorium simulating affective illness, such as mania, mixed affective states, or depression. The psychosis disappeared after cessation of the drug, combined with or without the use of low dosage phenothiazines in excited patients. From our cases, two types of presentation of chloroquine psychosis could be seen: (1) psychic with clear sensorium, mood changes, alteration in motor activity, delusions, and hallucinations; and (2) psycho-organic with clouded sensorium, disorientation, and fleeting hallucinations. The precise nature of the mechanism of the psychosis is not clear because of the limited number of reported cases.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

Identifying drug-dependent persons in a survey: a note on methodological issues.

A survey of 2,064 male persons in a rural area revealed that 423 (20.5 per cent) expressed craving for one or more abused substances. Close relationships were found between self-expressed craving and daily use of a drug. These data also suggest that in a large-scale survey, self-expressed craving and frequency of drug use could be used for fairly reliable estimates of the state of dependence on a drug.

Epidemiologic Methods↗
PubMed1978

Psychosocial correlates of chronic cannabis use.

The psychosocial effects of chronic heavy use of cannabis were studied in a rural population of males in north India. The user group comprised thirty persons who had been taking only cannabis at least 11 times a month over a period of five years or more. The controls were fifty subjects selected from among the general population to which the users belonged. The controls had not been using any drugs. The subjects had similar age distribution, occupation, socioeconomic status, and educational background. Psychosocial adaptation was assessed by enquiries into such areas as self-aspiration, present occupation, occupational satisfaction, marital status, marital relationships, sexual behaviour, self-reported deviant behaviour, and future planning for children. On no variable were the present users found to be different from the non-user control group.

Adult↗