Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.
<h4>Background</h4>Alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use cause considerable morbidity and mortality, but good cross-national epidemiological data are limited. This paper describes such data from the first 17 countries participating in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Wo...
Main Authors: | Louisa Degenhardt, Wai-Tat Chiu, Nancy Sampson, Ronald C Kessler, James C Anthony, Matthias Angermeyer, Ronny Bruffaerts, Giovanni de Girolamo, Oye Gureje, Yueqin Huang, Aimee Karam, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Jean Pierre Lepine, Maria Elena Medina Mora, Yehuda Neumark, J Hans Ormel, Alejandra Pinto-Meza, José Posada-Villa, Dan J Stein, Tadashi Takeshima, J Elisabeth Wells |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Medicine |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18597549/?tool=EBI |
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