ISSN:0007-0890    

DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01216.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0007-0890    

DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01217.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe purpose of the study was to investigate the effect on alcoholics of a simple hypnotic treatment with suggestions about indifference to alcohol and general well‐being, as a result of sobriety. 40 patients received such treatment at foe seances and were compared during a six months' observation time with a non‐hypnotic group of 40 patients, who had received psychotherapy at five visits. The groups were compared with regard only to objectively measured variables which indicated among other things inability to work and the need of medical care. No statistically significant differences mere found between the groups, but the trend in the results is in favour of the hypnosis group. The methodological difficulties are discus

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DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01218.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

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SummaryA number of genetically determined characteristics have been investigated in alcoholic populations to ascertain the possibility of a genetic influence in the aetiology of alcoholism. The present study details an investigation of one such characteristic; the taste threshold of phenylthiocarbamide (P.T.C.), Although the distribution of alcoholic subjects along the taste/non‐taste continuum was significantly different than the distribution of control subjects there was no evidence that this difference was due to genetic influence

ISSN:0007-0890    

DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01219.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe fast three years work of a drug dependence Out‐Patient clinic is discussed. 40 patients who succeeded in overcoming their drug habit are compared with a similar number still on drugs. No clear differences emerged which offered a prognostic guid

ISSN:0007-0890    

DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01220.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

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SummaryThe progress of a methadone‐maintenance programme set up to deal with users of opiate drugs in Auckland is described. The failure of the programme is recorded and possible reasons for this are discussed. In addition demographic data given by each user is presente

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DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01221.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0007-0890    

DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01222.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryEmphasis upon a public health model with two elements of primary prevention (non‐specific health promotion and specific protection) is employed to critique methods and techniques listed in twenty‐seven curriculum outlines and guidelines for drug abuse prevention programs in elementary schools. Responses from twenty‐four states and territories, five cities, a federal agency and a private association are listed.The techniques, which were most often cited, using grade five as a base, were: the listing and the classification of drugs, the use of role play and/or dramatization, the discussion of prescription vs. non‐prescription drugs, the use of bulletin board displays, the discussion of drug storage, the discussion of the history of drugs, suggestions for a doctor or nurse presentation, and the collection of articles and advertisements about drugs.Critique of existing methods is based upon the finding that most programs focused upon specific protection rather than upon the non‐specific health promotional aspects of primary p

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DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01223.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

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SummaryIn the fast part of a long‐term evaluation of a specialised service for the treatment of drug and alcohol addicts, interviews were conducted with 139 drug abusers referred in 1969 and 1970. The problems of drug abuse in the East Midlands differ from those described in metropolitan areas. The problem in terms of notified opiate addiction is small although over half the sample had had at least one experience with opiates. There was a low incidence of physical disability due to drug abuse, compared to the London clinics. The most commonly abused drugs were oral amphetamines and cannabis, but patients usually had experience of more than one drug. There was a marked increase in LSD abuse since 1970. Dependence was on a drug sub‐culture rather than on any particular drug. Social pressures appeared more important in the genesis of drug abuse than mental distress. Over half claimed to have been introduced to drugs by “a friend” and only 6 per cent by “a pusher”. This would suggest that the efficacy of legislators making a distinction between pusher and user is blurred.The mean age of the sample was 23 years. Most were unmarried and all were British by birth. No social class was disproportionately represented. Most were resident in Nottingham or Nottinghamshire. Distance and lack of information may have been a barrier to patients further afield using the service. Over half were unemployed at first contact. The majority of the sample had an unstable work record.The number of patients referred to the Addiction Unit is increasing probably because the Clinic is becoming better known in the area. It is suggested, however, that the patients seen represented only a small proportion of the overall problem of drug abuse in the East Midlands. There is a growing need for treatment centres in the provinces to deal with the problems of drug abuse which differ from the metropoli

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DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01224.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

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SummaryPeople who joined Matrix House, an autonomous self‐help group at the Lexington, Kentucky, Federal Narcotics Hospital, tended to be dissimilar to a white “street” addict on a number of variables. Proportionately, they came from a higher socio‐economic background; they were more often young, white, and single males; they were inclined toward “less complicated” kinds of crime while on the streets; they were less criminally oriented in that they had fewer arrests and spent less time incarcerated; they had somewhat shorter addiction careers; and finally they abused different types of drugs, primarily psychedelics. Overall, the Stayers seemed to differ from a sample of 267 STs (other Lexington patients) and the Leavers were more similar to the STs, which may partially account for the fact they left Matrix House. The main point derived from this study is that Matrix House, as a self‐help modality which could have drawn its members from a fairly representative population of narcotics addicts, attracted only a certain type, as indicated above. It tended to choose people who had similar characteristics, or perhaps conversely, only a certain type of individual chose this self‐help modality. Unfortunately, whatever the characteristics of an individual who entered this treatment modality, on the average he only remained a sh

ISSN:0007-0890    

DOI:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1973.tb01225.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1973

数据来源: WILEY