Young people's access to tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7513.393

BMJ 2005;331:393-396 (13 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7513.393

Clinical review

Young people's access to tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs

David Ogilvie, MRC fellow¹, Laurence Gruer, director of public health science², Sally Haw, senior public health adviser³

¹ MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ, ² NHS Health Scotland, Glasgow G3 7LS, ³ NHS Health Scotland, Edinburgh EH10 4SG

Correspondence to: D Ogilvie d.ogilvie@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk

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Introduction

Young people's use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs causesconcern. Early use of psychoactive substances can be harmfulto health in the short term—for example, through injuriessustained or inflicted while intoxicated—and can leadto lasting patterns of consumption that increase the risk ofmany chronic diseases and social problems.^1
2 Recent concernin the United Kingdom has focused on issues such as continuedhigh levels of smoking by young women, binge drinking and associatedantisocial behaviour by young people in general, and higherlevels of cannabis use in adolescents than in most Europeancountries.^w1

One potential approach to reducing the use of psychoactive substancesin young people is to control their availability, but publicpolicy in this area has tended to tackle tobacco, alcohol, orillicit drugs in isolation and is not necessarily based on evidenceabout what works.³ We review the research evidence on availabilityand answer two . . . [Full text of this article]

Sources of evidence

Tobacco

Alcohol

Other drugs

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