Psychiatric disorder and substance use in adolescence.

Full Abstract

This article examines the relationship between psychiatric disorder and the use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and hard drugs during adolescence. The sample of 1,302 adolescents aged 12 to 16 came from households selected by stratified, cluster and random sampling of the 1981 Canada Census. Symptom checklists were used to approximate diagnoses of conduct disorder, attention deficit disorder and emotional disorder. Logistic regression analyses indicated that conduct disorder was strongly related to all types of substance use and that emotional disorder was related to the use of tobacco, alcohol and hard drugs. These relationships were true for the adolescents' self-assessments only; the parents' assessments of psychiatric disorder were not related to the adolescents' reports of substance use.

Author information

Author/s: Boyle, M H (MH); Offord, D R (DR);

Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie (Can J Psychiatry), published in CANADA. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1991-Dec; vol 36 (issue 10) : pp 699-705

Dates: Created 1992/04/01; Completed 1992/04/01; Revised 2007/08/01;

PMID: 1790514, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)

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