Drug-screening in an Austrian prison

Authors/Editors

Rous, Francis Peyton

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Publication Details

Output type: Journal article

Author list: Lapornik R., Lehofer M., Rous F., Klampfer H., Hofmann P., Zapotoczky H.

Publication year: 1994

Volume number: 65

Issue number: 9

Start page: 633

End page: 634

Number of pages: 2

ISSN: 0028-2804

URL: http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:0028169342

Abstract

In the Austrian prison Graz, a randomized group of 64 prisoners (12,5 % out of 512 total) was selected to investigate patterns of drug abuse. From this group, 60 consented to drug-screening in urine. While opiates, cocaine, alcohol and amphetamines screened negative, cannabis (in 8,4 %) and benzodiazepines (in 20%) had positive results.

Keywords

addiction, drugs, drug-screening, imprisonment, substance-abuse

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