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© British Association of Social Workers

Incidence of Drug and Solvent Abuse in ‘Normal’ Fourth and Fifth Year Comprehensive School Children—Some Socio-behavioural Characteristics

COLIN PRITCHARD, Professor, MARY FIELDING, N. CHOUDRY, MALCOLM COX and IAN DIAMOND

Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton

East Dorset Drug Advisory Service

Consultant in Adult Mental Health, St.Anne's Hospital, Poole

with Dorset Probation Department

Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton

Summary

A sample of 807 fourth and fifth formers completed a self-report study that yielded levels of solvent and drug misuse. Nineteen per cent were involved with some type of misuse, 4% with solvent abuse only, 4% with serious (hard) drug abuse and 15% drug abuse mainly involving cannabis. Significant social characteristics found amongest the abusers were higher levels of father unemployement (28%), absent parent (32%) and belonging to a larger family. Abuse was significantly asociated with under-age drinking, vandalism, truancy, fighting and smoking. The majority of the sample (95%), however, considered abuse to be a serious matter.


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