2012
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-07072012000500008
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Profile of simultaneous poly-substance users of undergraduate students at one university, Kingston - Jamaica

Abstract: This study is part of a multicentric research project involving seven universities in five Latin American countries and one Caribbean island (Jamaica). This cross-sectional study examines the profile of a sample of first and second year undergraduate students in the Medical/Health Science Department of one university in Kingston, Jamaica. The sample size was 295 students. Our results revealed that this pattern of drug use is occurring in this specific university. Alcohol was the most frequently reported substa… Show more

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“…In Trinidad, Dhanookdhary and colleagues [74] examined substance use patterns amongst university students ranging from 17 to 50 years of age, and reported that 17% and 10% of the total sample indicated that they used a dual combination of alcohol and tobacco, and a triple combination of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana in the past sixmonths respectively. In Jamaica, Harrison and colleagues [75] explored simultaneous polysubstance use among undergraduates at one university and reported that alcohol was the most frequent substance when combined with other drugs, followed by marijuana and tobacco. A more recent study utilized school surveys and examined current polysubstance use amongst adolescents in three Caribbean countries; namely Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic, and found that 17.4%, 10.0% and 8.5% of participants engaged in polysubstance use respectively [76].…”
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“…In Trinidad, Dhanookdhary and colleagues [74] examined substance use patterns amongst university students ranging from 17 to 50 years of age, and reported that 17% and 10% of the total sample indicated that they used a dual combination of alcohol and tobacco, and a triple combination of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana in the past sixmonths respectively. In Jamaica, Harrison and colleagues [75] explored simultaneous polysubstance use among undergraduates at one university and reported that alcohol was the most frequent substance when combined with other drugs, followed by marijuana and tobacco. A more recent study utilized school surveys and examined current polysubstance use amongst adolescents in three Caribbean countries; namely Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic, and found that 17.4%, 10.0% and 8.5% of participants engaged in polysubstance use respectively [76].…”
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