Cocaine use by senior medical students
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 March 1989
Scott Conard, Patrick H. Hughes, DeWitt C. Baldwin, Karl Achenbach, David V. Sheehan
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The authors studied senior medical students' attitudes about and use of cocaine to find rates of reported use were lower than those of an age-matched cohort.
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The authors studied 589 senior medical students' attitudes about and use of cocaine. Reported use was 36% in the students' lifetimes, 17% in the past year, and 6% in the past month. Overall, these rates were lower than those of an age-matched cohort.
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