Secondary prevention of drug dependence through the transcendental meditation program in metropolitan Philadelphia.
The International journal of the addictions September 1977 R J Monahan
Using mailed questionnaires, the Transcendental Meditation program was investigated as an approach to the secondary prevention of substance dependence. Significant differences were found between a random sample of meditators and matched control subjects in usage levels and percentage of users for almost all legal and illegal drugs. Meditators had used more prescribed psychoactive medications...