Depression and Illegal Drug Use

Paper Summary:

This paper relates that a sample of 200 university students, who have been diagnosed with clinical depression, were surveyed using questionnaires in order to test the correlation factor between clinical depression and illegal drug use. The paper points out that questionnaires revealed that 68% of the students had responded in the affirmative when questioned if they had used illegal drugs while battling clinical depression. The paper indicates that these results prove that clinically depressed students often seek to escape their stressful situations through the hallucinatory trance effect offered by illegal drugs. The paper also includes a description of the methodology and a table.

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Abstract
Introduction
Methodology
Results
Discussion

From the Paper:

"In university and academic campuses all over the world, students increasingly feel the need to excel in their academic life as well as effectively play multi-faceted roles in their familial and societal lives. Burdened with increasing academic loads, parental and peer pressure, students often become depressed and withdrawn when they fail to meet expectations. While some students are quick to recover and once again join the academic fray, for others however, the depressive symptoms linger for much longer."

Sample of Sources Used:

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