title: Nurses' use of alcohol and other drugs: findings from a national probability sample.
abstract: This study examined the prevalence of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use among nurses in the 1984 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) using methods similar to those employed in a study comparing nurses and nonnurses from the 1980-1984 Epidemiological Catchment Area program (ECA). Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate the degree to which AOD use was associated with occupation. Results indicating that substance use is unrelated to occupation lend support to earlier findings from the ECA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Mental Health, and Administrative Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612, USA. THughes@uic.edu
authors.forename: Tonda L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Marion J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Henry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D012494:Sampling Studies; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology