Citation

Samarasinghe D. World Health Forum 1992; 13(4): 368-371.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, World Health Organization)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1466746

Abstract

Following training courses, young people in Sri Lanka are demonstrating that the subjective influence of alcohol and other drugs, and the behaviour they allegedly induce, can be changed by undermining widely held beliefs on their effects. Support is thus emerging for the view that the "magic" or pleasurable experiences commonly ascribed to drugs have little to do with their chemical action.

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