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Longitudinal studies of drug abuse in a fifteen‐year‐old population
Author(s) -
Holmberg M. B.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1985.tb05052.x
Subject(s) - ninth , medicine , substance abuse , psychiatry , cohort , longitudinal study , population , poison control , demography , pediatrics , environmental health , physics , pathology , sociology , acoustics
A representative, stratified sample of ninth‐graders of comprehensive school 1968 were followed retrospectively and prospectively in files from hospitals and Social Welfare Administration and in other official registers. Those who had stated high‐frequency drug use in a school questionnaire, those who had attended special classes or had dropped out of school appeared to a larger extent than the average ninth‐graders in social and child psychiatric registers during childhood. Over a follow‐up period of 11 years they had a large over‐consumption of drug‐related psychiatric and social care. They were more often sick‐listed and assessed to be without income than the average year cohort. The women had children before 20 years of age and the men were exempted from military service lo a higher extent.