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Richard S. Onyango

1 paper in the library · 23 citations · publishing 1986

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Cannabis Psychosis in Young Psychiatric Inpatients

British Journal of Addiction March 1, 1986 Richard S. Onyango 23 citations

Summary A survey of 25 consecutive admissions to a psychiatric hospital of patients aged 35 and under reveals that cannabis use is reported by up to 48% of patients, but that it could be verified by urine tests in only 17.4%. The presence of cannabis in the urine appeared to play little part in the phenomenology of the illness in all except one patient. A case history of this one identified...