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Correlates and Outcome of Illicit Drug use by Adolescent Girls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Peter Noble ,
Tom Hart  and
Ron Nation
Peter Noble
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
Tom Hart
Affiliation:
Cumberlow Lodge Remand Home, London, S.E.25
Ron Nation
Affiliation:
Cumberlow Lodge Remand Home, London, S.E.25
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Illicit drug taking, particularly by young people, has increased substantially in recent years. Cannabis offences increased from 51 in 1957 to 4,683 in 1969, and offences involving amphetamines and LSD increased from 1,216 in 1966 to 3,762 in 1969. Most drug taking is undetected by the police, and is hence underestimated by conviction rates. Weiner (1969) found by questionnaire an incidence of drug-taking by London schoolchildren of 5·39 per cent, and Webb (1969) found an incidence of 24 per cent on a university campus.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 558 , May 1972 , pp. 497 - 504
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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