ฐานข้อมูลวิจัยด้านสุขภาพจิตและจิตเวช

ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Piya-Anant M,

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: A Study of Amphetamine Users in Vocational School Boy

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Siriraj Hospital Gazette, Vol. 48, No. 3, March 1996. Page 220-226.

รายละเอียด / Details:

In Thailand, amphetamine locally called "YAMAH" are wrongly used as stimulants. They are widely available among teenagers in vocational schools. In a urinary amphetamine test conducted on three hundred and fifty vocational students aged 18-20 years 13.7% proved positive. Significantly half of the students testing positive were aged only 18 years, maybe because, being younger they are easily led which might have caused by their own inexperienced behavior. It was also found that 42.9% of these students had sex-related diseases, though most had sexual intercourse with their girl friends and only a few with prostitutes. On comparing the sexual histories, we found 62.5% of the positive group always used condom during suxual intercourse, while only 19.4% in the negative group did, a marked statistical difference. On proving deeper with the students testup positive we found that themseleves male and female, are agents for this "YAMAH" which is currently selling at 60-100 baht per tablet. Two factors which have caused them to be addicted to "YaMAH" are family problems and friends. All students realize the danger "YaMAH" poses to their health and the waste of money it causes. Yet, they would be able to stop taking "YaMAH" only if it were not still available in their own schools.

Keywords: amphetamine, student, drug dependence, drug addict, drug abuse

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 1996

Address: Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Code: 00006152

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-152X

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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