In:
Journal of Drug Issues, SAGE Publications, Vol. 16, No. 2 ( 1986-04), p. 199-207
Abstract:
The nature and extent of alcohol use by Australian adolescents is described and discussed through the results from a survey of drug use by New South Wales secondary school students conducted in late 1983. In this survey, alcohol was the most commonly reported drug and a significant minority of students were using alcohol in a way considered potentially hazardous. The proportion of students regularly drinking has apparently doubled in the past decade, from 24% in 1971 to 50% in 1983. Rates of daily drinking were higher than those reported in the U.S. student survey of Bachman, Johnston & O'Malley (1982). Various ways of controlling or preventing misuse of alcohol by adolescents are discussed.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0022-0426
,
1945-1369
DOI:
10.1177/002204268601600207
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
1986
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2051257-0
SSG:
2,1
SSG:
15,3
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