Prevalence of Khat chewers among primary health clinic attenders in Kenya
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1987-03Author
Omolo, O E
Dhadphale, M.
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n a rural district hospital in Kenya, the authors screened 100 randomly selected outpatients for khat (miraa) chewing. A surprisingly high number of them admitted chewing khat leaves. The implications of this finding and the controversy about whether or not khat is a harmful drug are discussed
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3591416http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31480
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Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1987 Mar;75(3):318-20.Publisher
University of Nairobi
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]