Substance use and problems among Toronto street youth
- 1 August 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Addiction
- Vol. 86 (8) , 999-1010
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1991.tb01861.x
Abstract
The extent of substance use and problems among adolescent ‘street’ and homeless populations is largely undocumented. This study describes the prevalence of drug use among a sample of 145 adolescent street youth interviewed during February and March 1990 in Toronto, Canada, and compares these data to those derived from other adolescent street and mainstream populations.Keywords
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