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SURVEY OF DRUG USE IN A SYDNEY SUBURB
Author(s) -
George Anne
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47262.x
Subject(s) - drug , sample (material) , medicine , street drugs , illicit drug , geography , environmental health , family medicine , psychiatry , chemistry , chromatography
A survey was conducted among a sample of households to gather information about knowledge of, attitudes to and behaviour concerning drugs. The sample included 639 people, all of whom were residents of a beach‐side suburb of the North Shore of Sydney. All members of the randomly selected households aged between 14 and 65 years independently answered a questionnaire. This report details the results concerning knowledge and use of eight drug groups. The most popular drugs are alcohol, analgesics, tobacco, and sedatives or tranquillizers. Stimulants, hallucinogens and marihuana are less common among the whole community, but popular among young people. The community will be surveyed again after a couple of years, to see whether changes have occurred.