Sources of alcohol and drug information among israeli urban adolescents

FRANÇAIS :
1346 étudiants de villes du nord d'Israël ont répondu à des questions concernant leurs sources d'informations sur huit catégories de drogues. La télévision représente la principale source pour toutes les drogues, sauf les inhalants, la presse écrite venant en second lieu. Les adolescents placent loin l'information auprès de professions médicales. L'expérience personnelle est prépondérante pour l'alcool, le tabac, les inhalants, la marijuana, surtout chez les hommes. Les femmes se documentent plus volontiers auprès des enseignants que les hommes. C'est pour l'alcool que le maximum de sources d'informations est utilisé, les dépresseurs venant pour leur part en dernière position.
ENGLISH :
1346 students were asked to indicate the amount of information (none, little, much) they had received from ten sources about eight categories of drugs. Among the findings : television is the primary source of information for all drugs, except inhalants, for which newspapers/magazines are the main source. Newspapers/ magazines are of secondary importance for the rest of the seven categories of drugs. Teenagers are less likely to receive information from physicians/nurses and relatives than from other sources. Information based on personal experience is prominent concerning alcohol, cigarettes, inhalants and hashish/marijuana, and it prevails more among males than among females. Females use school teachers as a source of information in all drug categories more than males. There are differences in using various information sources among grades and types of places of living. The mean number of sources of information used by the respondents is the highest concerning alcohol and the lowest concerning depressants. (Extract from authors' abstract)