Somasundaram Ottilingam, Raghavan D Vijaya, Murthy A G Tejus
Department of Psychiatry, Madras Medical College, Institute of Mental Health, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2016 Jan-Mar;58(1):93-6. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.174396.
Consumption of one or other form of intoxicating substances has been present throughout the history of the world. This article traces such use in the Indian subcontinent, both in North and South India. References to the use of intoxicants are to be found in the Vedas, the Great Epics, and the ancient Tamil literature.
在世界历史上，人们一直都有食用某种形式的致醉物质的行为。本文追溯了印度次大陆（包括印度北部和南部）的此类行为。在吠陀经、伟大史诗以及古泰米尔文学中都能找到关于致醉物质使用的记载。
