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Delinquency and Amphetamines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. D. Scott  and
Monamy Buckell
P. D. Scott
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital and the Home Office
Monamy Buckell
Affiliation:
The Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital
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In a survey of 612 young people remanded in the London area during 1964, positive urine tests were found for amphetamine for 18 per cent of the 558 boys and 16 per cent of the 54 girls examined (Scott and Willcox, 1965). This paper presents the findings of a similar type of survey carried out in the same remand homes five years later.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 549 , August 1971 , pp. 179 - 182
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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