A Three Month Srudy of the General Practitioner Sessions at the Cape Town Drug Counselling Centre
Keywords:
Drug abuse, General Practice Counselling.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to establish a trend. pattern of the population which visited the Cape Town Drug Counseling Centre and how active GPs were in this field. Dagga and Mandrax were abused more heavily than elsewhere, and the numbers of White Capetonions who are abusing drugs, are increasing. The author gives an illness Profile of the patients, their actual physical complaints as well as the findings and treatment of the doctors and the spectrum substance abuse.
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