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Can Medical Students Identify Recreational Drugs By Name?, Paul Dargan, C Bishop, C.A.A Chahal, Alison Jones, David Wood
Can Medical Students Identify Recreational Drugs By Name?, Paul Dargan, C Bishop, C.A.A Chahal, Alison Jones, David Wood
Alison L Jones
Background: Recreational drug toxicity is a common reason for presentation to the Emergency Department. Knowledge of recreational drug names is important to allow targeted assessment of patients presenting with recreational drug toxicity. Aims: To assess final year medical student knowledge of proper and street names for recreational drugs. Design: Questionnaire survey of final year medical students attending a revision lecture. Methods: There were two questionnaires used in this study. The first contained either proper names of recreational drugs or names sounding similar to recreational drugs or licensed pharmaceutical products; students were asked to identify which of these were recreational drugs. …