PMID- 16412261
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060911
LR  - 20150813
IS  - 1671-4083 (Print)
IS  - 1671-4083 (Linking)
VI  - 27
IP  - 2
DP  - 2006 Feb
TI  - Recent trends in drug abuse in China.
PG  - 140-4
AB  - Drug abuse has spread quickly since reemerging as a national problem in China in 
      the late 1980s. The number of registered drug abusers increased from 70,000 in 
      1990 to more than one million by the end of 2004. In addition to opioids, abuse 
      of 'new' types of drugs including 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and 
      ketamine has spread since 1997. Illicit drug trafficking and production have 
      swept most of southern China, and throughout the country drug abuse has caused 
      many problems for both abusers and the community. One major drug-related problem 
      is the spread of HIV, which has caused major social and economic damage in China. 
      In response, the Chinese government has begun an anti-drug campaign, including 
      legislative measures to control drug abuse. However, changing the public's 
      attitudes toward drug abusers and breaking the link between drug use and HIV 
      spread are equally important.
FAU - Fang, Yu-xia
AU  - Fang YX
AD  - Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Branch, Intramural Research Program, 
      National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 
      21224, USA.
FAU - Wang, Yan-bo
AU  - Wang YB
FAU - Shi, Jie
AU  - Shi J
FAU - Liu, Zhi-min
AU  - Liu ZM
FAU - Lu, Lin
AU  - Lu L
LA  - eng
GR  - Intramural NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Acta Pharmacol Sin
JT  - Acta pharmacologica Sinica
JID - 100956087
RN  - 690G0D6V8H (Ketamine)
RN  - KE1SEN21RM (N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine)
SB  - IM
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - *Drug and Narcotic Control/legislation & jurisprudence
MH  - HIV Infections/complications/epidemiology
MH  - Ketamine
MH  - N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine
MH  - Opioid-Related Disorders/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Substance Abuse, Intravenous/complications/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Substance-Related Disorders/complications/*epidemiology/prevention & control
RF  - 35
EDAT- 2006/01/18 09:00
MHDA- 2006/09/12 09:00
CRDT- 2006/01/18 09:00
PHST- 2006/01/18 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/09/12 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/01/18 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2006.00270.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2006 Feb;27(2):140-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2006.00270.x.