Prevalence of alcohol, tobacco and street drugs consumption in adult Latin American immigrants
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Prevalence of alcohol, tobacco and street drugs consumption in adult Latin American immigrants.
To estimate the prevalence of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption (through the self-report) in adult Latin-American immigrants of Seville, a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in a representative sample of 190 immigrants. The results showed that 61.4% of the participants had consumed alcohol in previous month before data collection, although 13.2% of them were at risk o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0104-1169
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-11692012000300014