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1Department of Public Health, Western Kentucky University, No.1 Big Red Way, 42101 3576, Bowling Green, KY, USA
Abstract:
American drug policy is predicated upon a dichotomy between legal drugs and illegal drugs - good drugs that enhance health and bad drugs which damage health. The fact of psychiatric co-morbidity between substance misuse disorders and other mental disorders is commonly taken to mean that drug use is damaging to mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine the mental well-being of a sample of occasional, recreational drug users. DRUGNET was an on-line survey of recreational drug use by non-deviant adults via the WWW. Volunteer subjects (n=906) completed the survey over the internet between March and September 1997. Mental health was assessed utilizing the General Well-being Schedule (GWBS). A complete demographic profile of the sample was taken. The GWBS correlated with frequency of use, intoxication levels and types of drugs consumed. This study demonstrates the existence of healthy, normally functioning adults who occasionally use psychoactive drugs.
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