Patterns of the drugs of abuse among educated Egyptian females

ABSTRACT

Screening of the urine samples of 448 educated Egyptian females forcannabinoids, amphetamines opiates and barbiturates revealed that only 22samples [4.9%] were positive at least for one of these drugs. The percentage of prevalence rates of the drugs-of-abuse was ranked as follows Opietes[50%], cannabinoids [18.2], barbiturates [18.2%] and amphetamines [13.6]. Only 0.2% of samples contained more than one drug. The screening wasperformed utilizing the radioimmunoassay technique and the positive resultswere confirmed using thin layer chromatography