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Psychoneurotic disturbance and drug-taking in Borstal boys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

R. H. Foggitt ,
M. R. Gossop  and
A. R. Nicol
R. H. Foggitt
Affiliation:
Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, the Drug Dependence Clinical Research and Treatment Unit, Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospital, London, and the Nuffield Child Psychiatry Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
M. R. Gossop
Affiliation:
Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, the Drug Dependence Clinical Research and Treatment Unit, Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospital, London, and the Nuffield Child Psychiatry Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
A. R. Nicol
Affiliation:
Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, the Drug Dependence Clinical Research and Treatment Unit, Bethlem Royal and the Maudsley Hospital, London, and the Nuffield Child Psychiatry Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Synopsis

Their own accounts of their use of drugs, together with a detailed description of psychiatric history and present mental state, were obtained from a sample of institutionalized delinquents, Subjects reporting extensive involvement in drug abuse were found to be disturbed on a number of psychiatric variables; however, those reporting some limited abuse were less disturbed than subjects reporting no experience of drug taking. The results and their implications are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 1976 , pp. 133 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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