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101 drug users were interviewed at baseline when 6-weeks abstinent. Eighty-four percent reported having drug-related dreams. More subjects reported drug dreams when abstinent than when using drugs. Ninety percent of subjects were followed-up at 6 months. Higher baseline measures of dream frequency were prospectively related to greater drug use. In the first 7 weeks of follow-up there was a rapid reduction in the number of reports, but half of the sample were still experiencing drug dreams in the sixth month. Drug dream frequency at follow-up was related to "craving" and lack of sleep.

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Among 200 members of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), those who had been off drugs and in contact with NA for longer tended to have lower trait anxiety and higher self-esteem scores, the relationship in each case being approximately linear. Those abstinent for longer than about three years had levels of anxiety and self-esteem similar to those in a comparison group of 60 students.

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Fourteen neonates were diagnosed to have Citrobacter sepsis during 1986-89, representing 4.6% of all cases with bacteriologically proven sepsis. Most of these infants were low birth weight (mean 2046 gm, +/- 750) and preterm (mean 34.8 weeks, +/- 3.8). Mean age at onset of sepsis was five days. In 10 cases the hematological profile was suggestive of sepsis. Infants had clinical evidence of multisystem infection; 2 with septic arthritis and 3 meningitis. The case fatality rate was 61%. Resistance to antibiotics was frequent. Citrobacter species were also cultured from other sites: umbilical stumps, eye swabs, urine, skin pustules and umbilical catheter tips. The epidemiological features and virulence of this organism call for vigilance and strict control measures.