BACKGROUND Although there have been a wide range of epidemiological studies examining the impact of patterns of alcohol consumption among adolescents, there remains considerable variability in both defining these patterns and the ability to comprehensively evaluate their relationship to behavioural patterns. This study explores a new procedure for defining and evaluating drinking patterns and i...

PURPOSE To monitor changes in habits in drug use among Italian high school students. METHODS Cross-sectional European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) carried out in Italy annually for 11 years (1999-2009) with representative samples of youth attending high school. The sample size considered ranges from 15,752 to 41,365 students and response rate ranged from 85.5% to 9...

AIM To investigate the association between environmental factors (perceived availability of marijuana, perceived use among friends and siblings, use of alcohol and tobacco, family structure, parental control, school performance) and lifetime prevalence and frequent and early marijuana use in high school students. METHODS We used self-reported data from 15-16 years old participants of the 2003...

Abstract Aim Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among Irish teenagers has risen significantly. In 2019, prevalence of current (last 30 days) 15–17-year-olds was 17.3%. We examine social determinants adolescent e-cigarette use. Subject and methods A stratified random sample 50 schools in Ireland surveyed part the European School Survey Project on Alcohol other Drugs (ESPAD), with 3495 studen...