Phencyclidine-Related Deaths in Los Angeles County, 1976

摘要: The current widespread use of the illicit drug phencyclidine (PCP), more commonly known as “angel dust” by “street people,” elicits not only a health hazard but also criminality through violence and public disturbance. Files Los Angeles County Sheriff's Crime Laboratory show that 25.3% 17 000 possession cases in 1976 involved PCP. Since can be readily prepared clandestinely, it has been substituted for tetrahydrocannabinol mescaline distribution. Jain et al [1] reported analysis urine specimens from probationers there was an increase PCP-positive samples 36 to 145 months January February 1975 1976. In 1977, were 435 positives these two months. consequence this street activity approximately 50 PCP per month admitted on emergency basis General Hospital