Demographic Prevalence of Drug Abuse in youth: Cases from the Surkhet District of Nepal

Pathak, Dhanush Chandra

doi:10.3126/jaar.v3i2.16757

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“…In the present study, we found that some similarities the age at first drug using by the respondent was 17.1 years and above 50% were employed, which is similar to the nationally published survey report by ministry of home affairs drug control programreported (15-19) years was the age for first drug intake and more than 50% drug user were employed [12]. However, this findings of our study contradictory to some recently publish paper [13,14]. Our study has some important strengths first of all we enrolled from different socio economic representatives of different districts.…”

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Status of Drug User in Buprenorphine Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) Center of Kathmandu Valley

Adhikari¹,

Ghimire²,

Khatiwada³

et al. 2019

International Journal of New Technology and Research

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Status of drug User in Buprenorphine Opioid SubstitutionTreatment (OST) center of Kathmandu Valley was conducted among drug users (both IDUs and DUs) aged 18 years and above who were currently using OST with buprenorphine. This study was directed in four OST centers in Kathmandu Valley with the main objective to assess the status of drug users in buprenorphine opioid substitution therapy. Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among 220 respondents using systematic random sampling method.Face to face, interview conducted with respondents using pre-tested, structured interview schedule. Data analyzed by statistical package for social Sciences (25 Version), visualization from R packages and results were presented in table and figures. Most of the drug users started using the drugs during their adolescent period. The mean age of fist drug use was 17.1 year. Half of the respondents started using drugs through smoking and 50% of the respondents first used the drugs under the influence of their peers and friendsand more than 85% of the respondents have ever injected drugs.

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“…Socio-Demographic Information of the RespondentTable IIrepresents the (59%) entered into drug habit during 15-19 years of age. among these categories, 23% male and 22% female initiated drug use even at a teenier age(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)…”

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