DEBASISH BASU, MD., DNB., Assistant Professor, Treatment Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160 012.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1999 Apr;41(2):145-53.
Substance abuse is an important medico-social problem. Comprehensive management of substance use disorders is of necessity linked to the study of epidemiology. In India we have a reasonable epidemiological data on substance abuse. However, this data base suffers from a number of methodological lacunae. The present paper discusses these lacunae and makes appropriate recommendations for future generation of epidemiological data on substance abuse in India.
药物滥用是一个重要的医学和社会问题。物质使用障碍的综合管理必然与流行病学研究相关。在印度,我们有关于物质滥用的合理的流行病学数据。然而,这个数据库存在许多方法学上的空白。本文讨论了这些空白,并就印度未来生成物质滥用的流行病学数据提出了适当的建议。