Drug Abuse Prevalence and Effects in Coffee Shop Workers: A Cross Sectional Study.

M. G., Makloph; Masoud, Mohamed

Background: Drug abuse among population have become more common than before, coffee shops workers are of increasing chance to drug abuse, the facing of such big problem necessitates collection of information regarding the prevalence of drug abuse types and effects on health, and this will result in prevention of its hazardous on population at all. Patients and Methods: cross-sectional study during the the first day of April 2019 till the last day of September 2019, one hundred and twenty coffee shop workers were included. The workers were chosen from 12 randomly selected coffee shops located in rural and in urban areas. The data were gathered through a questionnaire and urine samples from participants. The collected samples were taken to the lab and screened for drug abuse using dip stick, thin layer chromatography (TLC) and gas chromatography (GC-MS). The collected data were organized, tabulated, and statistically analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS Inc, version 22). Results: the study showed that The prevalence of tramadol and cannabis and other synthetic drugs among coffee shop workers in urban and rural area nowdays more than before and their detection easily done by using GC-MS. hazardous on health among abusers more than non abusers.

DRUG abuse; COFFEE shops; DRUGS of abuse; THIN layer chromatography; INFORMATION technology; SYNTHETIC drugs; SYNTHETIC marijuana

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 4, p1713

0973-9122

Academic Journal

10.37506/ijfmt.v15i4.16952