Drug use prevalence in a rural school-age population: the New Hampshire survey

摘要: Pre-adolescent and adolescent drug use is a major public health concern in the United States. Although we have good prevalence data on some adolescents, little information pre-adolescents, young rural children. We conducted survey of 4,406 children grades 4-12 New Hampshire 1990. Students completed annual self-report surveys demographic characteristics, use, psychosocial risk factors. These are initiating elementary school. Alcohol preferred for both genders at all grade levels, followed by cigarettes, marijuana, spitting tobacco. Current these drugs escalates sixth through ninth grades. Lifetime 30-day increase slowly high Most who going to begun tenth grade. In this state, children's preferences similar those other pre-adolescents adolescents. Rural students equal, cases higher, lifetime current alcohol, tobacco comparison with national samples.