PMID: 9440159Jan 24, 1998Paper

Russian adolescent drug use and comparisons to United States adolescents

Substance Use & Misuse
S D Scheer, D G Unger

Abstract

There is limited drug use data on Russian youth since the dissolution of the USSR. This study provides descriptive and comparative data for establishing initial baseline levels of Russian adolescent drug use. A convenience sample of 150 Russian adolescents (mean age = 15.4 years) was surveyed at a suburban Moscow secondary school during the fall of 1992. The findings showed that tobacco and alcohol were the most commonly used drugs, and that there were gender differences in their use. More Russian girls had used alcohol than Russian boys, while more boys had used tobacco and at an earlier average age than the girls. Tobacco and alcohol use between the Russian sample and United States samples was generally similar. Differences were attributed to age variations in the Russian and US samples.

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