Longitudinal studies of drug abuse in a fifteen-year-old population. 2. Antecedents and consequences.
A representative, stratified sample of ninth-graders of comprehensive school 1968 were followed retrospectively and prospectively in files from hospitals and Social Welfare Administration and in other official registers. Those who had stated high-frequency drug use in a school questionnaire, those who had attended special classes or had dropped out of school appeared to a larger extent than the average ninth-graders in social and child psychiatric registers during childhood. Over a follow-up period of 11 years they had a large over-consumption of drug-related psychiatric and social care. They were more often sick-listed and assessed to be without income than the average year cohort. The women had children before 20 years of age and the men were exempted from military service to a higher extent.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology; D056486:Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury / Q000453:epidemiology; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011605:Psychoses, Substance-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology; D012931:Social Environment; D012946:Social Welfare; D013332:Student Dropouts / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D013548:Sweden