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Substance use and problems among Toronto street youth
Author(s) -
SMART REGINALD G.,
ADLAF EDWARD M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1991.tb01861.x
Subject(s) - substance use , mainstream , substance abuse , psychology , sample (material) , suicide prevention , demography , illicit drug , poison control , geography , psychiatry , environmental health , medicine , sociology , drug , political science , chemistry , chromatography , law
The extent of substance use and problems among adolescent ‘street’ and homeless populations is largely undocumented. This study describes the prevalence of drug use among a sample of 145 adolescent street youth interviewed during February and March 1990 in Toronto, Canada, and compares these data to those derived from other adolescent street and mainstream populations.