The Prevalence and Pattern of Solvent Abuse Among Secondary School Children

1 The Prevalence and Pattern of Solvent Abuse Among Secondary School Children 

Although a number of studies to examine the prevalence of solvent abuse have been conducted in North America, information on the prevalence among young people in Britain is currently limited. Prior to the end of the last decade, only a few isolated surveys had been conducted to examine the use of illicit drugs by 

A subsidiary aim of the present study was to supplement these findings by examining the prevalence of solvent abuse in an unselected sample of urban school children. 

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