Author/Editor     Nolimal, D
Title     Razširjenost zlorabe alkohola, tobaka in drugih drog v Sloveniji
Translated title     The extent of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse in Slovenia
Type     članek
Source     Zdrav Vestn
Vol. and No.     Letnik 61, št. 3
Publication year     1992
Volume     str. 127-31
Language     slo
Abstract     Background. The statistics from health, pharmaceutical, welfare, economy and law enforcement sources und school surveys was used to assess the extent and consequences of licit and illicit drug abuse in Slovenia. Results and conclusians. The averuge consumption of pure alcohol in Slovenia have reached the level of 10 litres per year per capita of pure alcohol in the laner half of the 1980s. Over 16 per cent of secondary schoolchildren surveyed in 1990 have already experienced family and/ or school troubles because of their drinking. The mortality due to alcoholic liver cirrhosis about tripled in the period between 1975 to 1990. It was in everage 18.3 deaths per year per 100,000 inhabitants in the 1980s. Between 18 per cent and 28 per cent of secondary schoolchildren surveyed in 1990 smoke. Public opinion data show that the percentage of the smokers among the adults have increased from 30 per cent to 34 per cent in the period between 1975 to 1988. The lung cancer mortality was in average 41 deaths per year per 100,000 inhabitants and 20.5 for the cronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the latter half of the 1980s. The abuse of tranquilizers and over-the-counter analgesics continues to be a problem. Cannabis experimentation does not exceed in average 20 per cent and heroin use is below 1 per cent in the adolescent school population in Ljubljana. On a low estimate, Slovenia has about 1000 intravenous heroin users and with low HIV prevalence. The data tend to be unreliable. More research of bener quality, supported by drug abuse information system is needed.
Descriptors     SUBSTANCE ABUSE
ALCOHOL, ETHYL
NICOTINE
MARIJUANA SMOKING
HEROIN DEPENDENCE
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
ALCOHOL DRINKING
LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC
NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE
SLOVENIA