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Article de Périodique
Drug use and life style among college undergraduates: a 30-year longitudinal study (2001)
(Usages de drogues et style de vie des étudiants : étude longitudinale sur 30 ans)
Auteur(s) :
POPE, H. G. ;
IONESCU-PIOGGIA, M. ;
POPE, K. W.
Année
2001
Page(s) :
1519-1521
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
JEUNE ADULTE
;
USAGER
;
TYPE D'USAGE
;
ETUDE LONGITUDINALE
;
MILIEU ETUDIANT
;
CONSOMMATION
;
EVOLUTION
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Résumé :
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined trends in the prevalence of substance use and its relationship to attributes of life style among college students over a 30-year period. METHOD: They distributed anonymous questionnaires to 796 seniors at a large New England college in 1999, using methods essentially identical to those of their previous studies at the same college in 1969, 1978, and 1989. RESULTS: Most forms of drug use rose to a peak in 1978 then fell over the next 21 years, except for use of 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine ("ecstasy"). On several variables, college substance users differed more sharply from nonusers in 1999 than in previous decades. CONCLUSIONS: Although the study was limited to students at a single institution, its findings suggest that college drug use is generally declining and that users have increasingly diverged from nonusers in their values and life style. (Author's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Biol. Psychiat. Lab., McLean Hosp./Harvard Med. Sch., 115 Mill. St., Belmont, MA 02478
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.