The Khat Users: A Study of Khat Chewing in Liverpool's Somali Men-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Khat Users: A Study of Khat Chewing in Liverpool's Somali Men

Published:1998-04 Issue:2 Volume:38 Page:165-169
ISSN:0025-8024
Container-title:Medicine, Science and the Law
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Sci Law

Author:

Ahmed A G¹,Salib Emad²

Affiliation:

1. Consultant Psychiatrist, Saskatchewan Hospital, North Battleford, Canada

2. Consultant Psychiatrist, Winwick Hospital, Warrington; Honorary Research Fellow, Liverpool University

Abstract

This study reports the demographic and social characteristics and level of psychological dysfunction in regular khat users compared with matched non-users. The results indicate that khat users resemble non-users on a number of psychosocial variables and GHQ scores, with no evidence to suggest higher morbidity amongst users. The two groups appear to differ only in the level of their use of nicotine and also in their perception of the harmful effects associated with khat use.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002580249803800215

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