1. The Reasons Behind Prevalence of Captagon Addiction in Jeddah and Community Awareness: A Questionnaire-Based Study
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Author: Esraa Adel Bamofleh, Jayda Abdullah Mohammed, Mohamed E. A. Abdelrahim, and Mohammed Gamal.
Editor: Dr. Ahmed M. Gouda
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2. The Reasons Behind Prevalence of Captagon Addiction in Jeddah and Community Awareness: A Questionnaire-Based Study
Esraa Adel Bamofleh1, Jayda Abdullah Mohammed1, Mohamed E. A. Abdelrahim2, and Mohammed Gamal 3,4* 
1 Clinical Pharm D program, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies , Jeddah , Saudia Arabia 2 Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ahram Canadian University, Giza, Egypt 3* Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Alshaheed Shehata Ahmad Hegazy St., Beni-Suef, Egypt 4 Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, AlJouf University, Skaka 2014 , KSA
*Corresponding Author:
Editor:
Dr. Ahmed M. Gouda1,2  1 Medicinal chemistry department, Faculty of pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia
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Citation: Bamofleh EA, Mohammed JA , Abdelrahim MEA, and Gamal M. The Reasons Behind Prevalence of Captagon Addiction in Jeddah and Community Awareness: A Questionnaire-Based Study. ScholReps 2017 April; 2(1).
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Received: Feb 16, Accepted: March 30, Published: April 10, 2017
Funding: None.
Subject : Clinical Toxicology
Conflict of interest: The authors have read the journal’s policy and declare that there is no conflicts of interests regarding the focus, interest or any of the contents of this work.
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3. Abstract
Introduction: The Captagon is the brand name of Fenethylline and it is a derivative of amphetamine. It was distributed as an over the counter (OTC) medication until It has several forms and names in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), common names that launches are: Abu mlaf, Lajah, Al abyad (white), Al qeshtah and Al asfaar (yellow). 
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from 11 November to 11 December 2015 using electronic survey on Google documents. The study was directed to the community as a general and not to those who have been addicted to Captagon. Data collected and analyzed through the statistical package for the social science (SPSS) version 19. 
Results: The number of persons replied for the questions was 123 Males and 290 Females from the age of 10 and above. 70.2% of the respondents believe that the most important causes of taking Captagon pills are bad friends and the weakness of religious faith, while 14% of them believe that the most important cause is the motivated experimentation, and 5.3% of them said that the main cause is the free time and 1.4% do not know the main reason. 
Conclusion: There is a relation between the sex variable and Captagon addiction. Also, there is a relation between the sex variable and knowing the public names of Captagon pills. There is no relation between the age variable and taking Captagon pills. There is no relation between knowing some side effects of taking Captagon and age factor and knowing the public names of Captagon. Young persons (group age from ) are the most addict group so more efforts should be directed for youth awareness about destructive effects on heath and society of drug abuse in schools and Universities. Bad fellows and weakness of religious faith are the most reason for Captagon abuse so parents should take care of sons’ friends and sons religious preaching. Future study is needed to demonstrate how to restrict captagon addiction in KSA.
Keywords: Captagon; Fenethylline; amphetamine; addiction; Saudi Arabia.
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Citation: Bamofleh EA, Mohammed JA , Abdelrahim MEA, and Gamal M. The Reasons Behind Prevalence of Captagon Addiction in Jeddah and Community Awareness: A Questionnaire-Based Study. ScholReps 2017 April; 2(1).

4. Table 1: This table shows the distribution of the study sample by age
Table 1 shows the characteristics of study sample according to personal details.
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5. Table 2: The study sample believe about Captagon pills
Table 2 shows that 59.3% of the study sample believe that Captagon pills are a stimulant pills makes the drug
abusers not sleep for days, on the other hand, 38.5% believe that it is narcotic pills, and 2.2% believe that it’s
Anti-depressant pills.
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6. Table 3: The study sample answer to the “Are you one of the Captagon abusers? ” question
Table 3 shows that 98.5% of the study sample stated that they do not take Captagon pills but 1.5% of them
stated that they do.
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7. Table 4: The study sample answer to the question: “What are the age group most abuse?”
Table 4 shows that 56.9% of the study sample believe that the age group (15-25) years old is the most persons
who abuse Captagon pills, while 40.4% believe that the age group members (26-35) years old is the most ones
who do.
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8. Table 5: The study sample answer to the “Did you know common names for Captagon pills?” question
Table 5 shows that 76.3% of the study sample don’t know the common names of Captagon pills, while 23.7% of them know.
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9. Figure 1: What are the times that are frequently the spread of captagon ?
Figure 1. shows that 69.5% of the study sample believe that Captagon pills are widely spread during “testing times”, while 3.9% of them believe that it’s widely spread during the school year, and 26.6% of them said that they don’t know when Captagon pills exactly spread.
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10. Figure 2: What are the leading causes of use captagon?
Figure 2 shows that 70.2% of the study sample believe that the most important causes of taking Captagon pills are bad friends and the weakness of religious faith, while 14% of them believe that the most important cause is the motivated experimentation, and 5.3% of them said that the main cause is the free time and 1.4% don’t know the main reason.
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11. Table 6: Is the absence of parental supervision at home helps the cause of the use captagon?
Table 6 shows that 89.1% of the study sample believe the parent's absence from the home encourage the sons to be abusers, while 10.9% don’t believe that.
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12. Table 7: Is Captagon abuse by a lack of awareness of risk factors?
Table 7 shows that 88.9% of the study sample believe that Lack of awareness is the main cause of taking Captagon pills, while 11.1% don’t believe that.
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13. Figure 3: Is captagon abuse leads to poor academic achievement and practical (career) for drug abusers?
It was found that 92.7% of the study sample believe that taking Captagon pills causes weak educational and practical attainment, while 7.3% don’t believe that.
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14. Figure 4: Do you think that captagon was a method for weight loose?
Figure 4. shows that 62% of the study sample believe that Captagon has an effective role in decreasing weight, while 38% don’t believe that.
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15. Figure 5: Is captagon abuse effects on the individual and society?
Figure 5 shows that 99% of the study sample believe that the Captagon abuse clearly affects the individual and society, while 1% of them don’t believe that.
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16. Figure 6: Did you know some of the symptoms of foreign affairs (physical) of captagon abusers? 
Figure 6 shows that 59.6% of the study sample know some side effects of taking Captagon, but 40.4% don't know.
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17. Table 8: Do you see that there is sufficient awareness about Captagon and damaging effects?
Table 8 shows that 88.9% of the study sample believe that there is enough awareness about Captagon and its side effects, while 11.1% don’t believe that.
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18. Figure 7: Do you think that customs and traditions, the biggest factor is the lack of awareness about the community?
Figure 7 shows that 58.6% of the study sample believe that traditions and habits are the main factors of the awareness absence in society, while 41.4% don’t believe that.
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19. Figure 8: Do you support the creation of awareness campaigns in public places and to educate the community?
It is clear from Figure 8 that 97.1% of the study sample are supporters of the establishment of awareness campaigns in the public places to educate the society, while 2.9% of them are not.
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20. Results and Discussion
Test Hypotheses
Hypotheses 1
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) between the sex factor and taking the Captagon pills.
The Ho the Null hypothesis was tested using Chi-square test (table 9) which assumes that there is no relation between the sex variable and the dealing with Captagon, and the Ha which assumes that there is a relation between the two variables, and the results were as shown next:
Table 9: The result of Chi-square test
** Statistically functions on level 0.01
df= Degrees of freedom
Sig.= significance level
It is clear from the table 9 that the Chi-square test calculated value equals (8.349) and it is larger than the tabular value for the test on level (1) and the value of Sig. was and it is less than the level of significance 0.01, then we refuse NULL hypothesis and accept the alternative that assumes that there is a relation between the sex variable and the taking Captagon.
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21. Hypotheses 2
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) between the sex factor and knowing the public names of Captagon pills.
The Ho the Null hypothesis was tested using Chi-square test (Table 10) which assumes that there is no relation between the sex variable and knowing the public names of Captagonpills., and the Ha which assumes that there is a relation between the two variables, and the results was as shown next.
Table 10: The result of Chi-square test
** Statistically functions on level 0.01
df= Degrees of freedom
Sig.= significance level
It is clear from the above table 10 that the Chi-square test calculated value equals (36.279) and it is larger than the tabular value for the test on level (1) and the value of Sig. was and it is less than the level of significance 0.01, then we refuse NULL hypothesis and accept the alternative that assumes that there is a relation between the sex variable and knowing the public names of Captagon pills.
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22. Hypotheses 3
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) between the sex factor and taking Captagon pills.
The Ho the Null hypothesis was tested using Chi-square test (Table 11) which assumes that there is no relation between the age variable and the variable of taking Captagon pills, and the Ha which assumes that there is a relation between the two variables, and the results was as shown next:
Table 11: The result of Chi-square test
df= Degrees of freedom
Sig.= significance level
It is clear from the table 11 that the Chi-square test calculated value equals (0.588) and it is less than the tabular value for the test on level (2) and the value of Sig. was and it is larger than the level of significance 0.05, then we accept NULL hypothesis that assumes that there is no relation between the age variable and taking Captagon pills.
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23. Hypotheses 4
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) between the age factor and knowing the public names of Captagon.
The Ho the Null hypothesis was tested using Chi-square test (Table 12) which assumes that there is no relation between the age variable and knowing the public names of Captagon, and the Ha which assumes that there is a relation between the two variables, and the results was as shown next:
Table 12: The result of Chi-square test
df= Degrees of freedom
Sig.= significance level
It is clear from the table 12 that the Chi-square test calculated value equals (0.352) and it is less than the tabular value for the test on level (2) and the value of Sig. was and it is larger than the level of significance 0.05, then we accept NULL hypothesis that assumes that there is no relation between age factor and knowing the public names of Captagon.
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24. Hypotheses 5
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) between knowing some side effects of taking Captagon and taking Captagon.
The Ho the Null hypothesis was tested using Chi-square test (Table 13) which assumes that there is no relation between knowing some side effects of taking Captagon and taking Captagon, and the Ha which assumes that there is a relation between the two variables, and the results was as shown next:
Table 13: The result of Chi-square test
df= Degrees of freedom
Sig.= significance level
It is clear from the table 13 that the Chi-square test calculated value equals (0.231) and it is less than the tabular value for the test on level (2) and the value of Sig. was and it is larger than the level of significance 0.05, then we accept NULL hypothesis that assumes that there is no relation between knowing some side effects of taking Captagon and taking Captagon.
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