• DOI:10.1159/000018923
Corpus ID: 46220739

Prevalence of Use, Abuse and Dependence of Illicit Drugs among Adolescents and Young Adults in a Community Sample

@article{Perkonigg1998PrevalenceOU,
  title={Prevalence of Use, Abuse and Dependence of Illicit Drugs among Adolescents and Young Adults in a Community Sample},
  author={A. Perkonigg and R. Lieb and H. Wittchen},
  journal={European Addiction Research},
  year={1998},
  volume={4},
  pages={58 - 66}
}

A. Perkonigg, R. Lieb, H. Wittchen

Published 1998

Medicine

European Addiction Research

Prevalence findings for 1995 of illicit drug use as well as DSM-IV abuse and dependence are reported from a representative population sample of 3,021 respondents from Munich, Germany, aged 14–24 years. Results are based on personal interviews using the M-Composite International Diagnostic Interview (M-CIDI) with its DSM-IV diagnostic algorithms. Findings indicate that more than 30% of the adolescents and young adults are or have been using one or more illicit drugs at least once in their life… CONTINUE READING

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