Drug Use and Life-Style Among 500 College Undergraduates

Hallucinogenic drugs as precipitants of schizophrenia

“…Of these 32 patients, in only six cases had the drug taking not clearly preceded the onset of schizophrenia. This is in contrast with the findings of Walters et al (1972), although they concerned themselves only with subjects who had consulted a psychiatrist, for whatever reason, rather than with confirmed schizophrenics. Our finding permits us to proceed to the question of whether the drug-taking might be understood to have played a role in precipitating schizophrenia, at least in the 26 cases where it preceded the onset of illness.…”

“…Similarly, Shearn and Fitzgibbons (1972), comparing drug use in young 'psychiatric patients' with that in student controls, found that the 'patients' had a far greater involvement with drugs, but they could not provide evidence to support a causal hypothesis. Walters et al (1972), who reported that 35-5% of users had visited a psychiatrist, as against 12-2% of all college students, found that half the users at the time they first saw the psychiatrist had not yet started their drug use. Therefore the drug ingestion could clearly not be implicated as the causative or precipitating agent in those cases.…”

Substance Abuse Among Medical Students – A Survey in a Medical College in Nepal

“…The probable adverse effects of these psychoactive substances have caused international concern over many years and international legislations have been enacted at various times to control their circulation and use. Various studies have reported an increasing trend in the prevalence of substance abuse, particularly among the youth, and its seriousness as a public health hazard [7][8][9][10] . A greater cause for concern is the finding of a similarity between urban and rural trends in drug use 11 .…”

“…There is a paucity of systematic data from the Indian subcontinent related to substance use among medical students. Rates of substance use reported by different studies vary globally [4][5][6][7] . We aimed to revisit this issue using a…”

Prevalence and Pattern of Substance Use among Undergraduate Medical Students at Birat Medical College and Teaching Hospital

“…Medical students have a con nuous burden of academic and clinical ac vi es and have easy access to drugs 2 that might influence the students to use the substances. Rates of substance use reported by different studies vary 3,4 globally. Literature revealed that physicians, den st, nurses have far higher rates of dependence, uncontrolled substances such as opioids, s mulants, seda ves than other professionals of compared educa onal achievements e.g.…”