NCJ Number
130062
Date Published
1991
Length
5 pages
Annotation
Data from 50,465 military draftees in Sweden in 1969 and 1970 were gathered through 1985 to determine the factors that may relate to drug and alcohol use in later life.
Abstract
Most of the participants were born between 1949 and 1951. Information was collected through extensive interviews and medical and psychological tests. Results revealed that 81.9 percent never used narcotics while 2 percent used drugs more than 50 times or had injected drugs. Factors related to the use of narcotics included the use of drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, early criminal behavior, parental drug habits, poor school and home relations, a difficult family structure, and negative personal characteristics. Thus, those whose parents were divorced, who were assigned to remedial classes in school, were truant from school, were unemployed for more than 3 months, or reported committing many crimes were much more likely than others to use narcotics. Chart