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Herbert H. Blumberg, PhD; S. Daryl Cohen, MB, BCh; B. Elizabeth Dronfield; Elizabeth A. Mordecal; J. Colin Roberts; David Hawks, PhD

JAMA. 1975;232(11):1131-1132.

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BRITISH opiate users appear to be more gainfully employed, stably housed, and socially involved than might be commonly expected. As part of an ongoing prospective study, the present sample consisted of people who had approached any of the 16 ordinary outpatient drug clinics in Greater London between mid-November 1970 and mid November 1972, provided that they had "fixed" (injected drugs in a nonmedical context), were seen by a doctor at the clinic, and were "new" to the clinic system. Three of four new attenders were interviewed in the first year of the study (210 subjects, a response rate of more than 90% of the 230 people eligible) and one of four newly attending in the second year (68 subjects, 86% of 79 people eligible). Social and psychological findings from the first year of this study have previously been reported.^1,2 The London drug clinics (for outpatient treatment under the National Health . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
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From the Addiction Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London.

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Reprint requests to Addiction Research Unit, 101 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, England (Dr. Blumberg).

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