EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE USE IN A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF 18-YEAR-OLD MALES
Author(s) -
Nestor D. Kapusta,
Katrin Ramskogler,
Inés Hertling,
Rainer Schmid,
Alexander Dvorak,
Henrik Walter,
Otto Lesch
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
alcohol and alcoholism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1464-3502
pISSN - 0735-0414
DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agh251
Subject(s) - cannabis , nicotine , medicine , cotinine , urine , alcohol dependence , logistic regression , epidemiology , substance abuse , environmental health , drug , alcohol , psychiatry , chemistry , biochemistry
To assess recent drug use through urine testing as well as the prevalence of tobacco and alcohol dependence among young males and to analyse the associations between tobacco dependence and cannabis use (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, THC), tobacco dependence, and alcohol dependence as well as between THC use and other illicit drug use.
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