Prevalence and demographic factors of stimulant use
作者:
H. PICKERING,
GERRY V. STIMSON,
期刊:
Addiction
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 89,
issue 11
页码: 1385-1389
ISSN:0965-2140
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1994.tb03734.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe use of stimulants for recreation purposes has increased considerably during the 20th century. Cocaine was first considered to be a drug of potential abuse during the First World War but was only perceived as a serious threat when it became widely used in socially and economically deprived urban areas of the USA in the 1980s. Use of amphetamines was common among certain occupational groups as a means of remaining alert until the 1950s, when they were seen to be abused by a small minority of recreational users. Controls were then introduced in most developed countries. The public health issue of stimulant use is that of finding a balance between the prevention of serious social or personal harm caused by abuse of these drugs while not impeding their beneficial use.
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