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    The use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs by young Aboriginal people in Albany, Western Australia

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    Authors
    Gray, Dennis
    Morfitt, B.
    Ryan, K.
    Williams, S.
    Date
    1997
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Gray, D. and Morfitt, B. and Ryan, K. and Williams, S.. 1997. The use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs by young Aboriginal people in Albany, Western Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 21 (1): 71-76.
    Source Title
    Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Faculty
    National Drug Research Institute
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    This article originally published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 1997 21(1) pp.71-76.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46151
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    Abstract

    This paper describes patterns of tobacco, alcohol and other drug use among Aboriginal people aged 8 to 17 years in the town of Albany, Western Australia. Of a total of 110 young Aboriginal people residing in the town in the town at the time of the study, 105 were interviewed by two trained Aboriginal research assistants using interview schedules that included questions based on the national guidelines for the comparability of studies of drug use among young people.The most commonly used drugs were tobacco, alcohol and cannabis. Use of other substances was usually experimental. The majority (57 per cent) of this population had not used any drugs, 13 per cent made some use of alchol/or tobacco, 15 per cent were polydrug users, and 15 per cent were frequent polydrug users. Use of drugs increased with age: 48 per cent of those aged 15 to 17 were frequent polydrug users. Tobacco consumption was greater and alcohol use less than that reported among Western Australian secondary school children of comparable age.

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