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A national household survey of drug misuse in Britain: a decade of development
Author(s) -
RAMSAY MALCOLM,
PERCY ANDREW
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1997.tb02965.x
Subject(s) - laptop , economic growth , scale (ratio) , environmental health , monitoring the future , political science , medicine , substance abuse , geography , psychiatry , economics , computer science , cartography , operating system
Like most other countries, Britain has lagged behind the United States in developing a fully‐fledged national household survey of drug misuse. Building on some initial efforts in the early 1990s, the 1994 British Crime Survey (BCS) and the 1995 National Drugs Campaign Survey (NDCS) and various other large‐scale household surveys have provided fresh insights into drugs prevalence and patterns of misuse. These developments—their achievements and their limitations—are reviewed here. Particular attention is paid to the development of self‐report methodologies: both the BCS and the NDCS rely on interviewees personally entering their responses on to laptop computers. Some of the main findings of these surveys are oho briefly discussed.