Non-medical prescription drug and illicit street drug use among young Swiss men and associated mental health issues
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Stéphanie Baggio
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Joseph Studer
Abstract
Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) is increasing among the general population, particularly among teenagers and young adults. Although prescription drugs are considered safer than illicit street drugs, NMUPD can lead to detrimental consequences. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between drug use (NMUPD on the one side, illicit street drugs on the other side) with mental health issues and then compare these associations. A representative sample of 5719 young Swiss men aged around 20 years filled in a questionnaire as part of the ongoing baseline Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors (C-SURF). Drug use (16 illicit street drugs and 5 NMUPDs, including sleeping pills, sedatives, pain killers, antidepressants, stimulants) and mental health issues (depression, SF12) were assessed. Simple and multiple linear regressions were employed. In simple regressions, all illicit and prescription drugs were associated with poorer mental health. In multiple regressions, most of the NMUPDs, except for stimulants, were significantly associated with poorer mental health and with depression. On the contrary, the only associations that remained significant between illicit street drugs and mental health involved cannabis. NMUPD is of growing concern not only because of its increasing occurrence, but also because of its association with depression and mental health problems, which is stronger than the association observed between these problems and illicit street drug use, excepted for cannabis. Therefore, NMUPD must be considered in screening for substance use prevention purposes.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Cardiovascular disease and prevention
- Reviews
- Future orientation: a construct with implications for adolescent health and wellbeing
- Aortic dilatation and dissection in Turner syndrome: What we know, what we are unclear about and what we should do in clinical practice?
- Original articles
- Gender differences in early trauma and high-risk behaviors among street-entrenched youth in British Columbia
- Health-promoting lifestyle and its predictors among Iranian adolescent girls, 2013
- Health risk behaviors and sexual initiation among in-school adolescents in rural communities in southwestern Nigeria
- Is change in health behavior of Dutch medical students related to change in their ideas on how a physician’s lifestyle influences their patient’s lifestyle?
- Awareness of current recommendations and guidelines regarding strength training for youth
- Non-medical prescription drug and illicit street drug use among young Swiss men and associated mental health issues
- Prevalence of health behaviors and their associated factors among a sample of university students in India
- Quality of life measures and psychiatric symptoms in adolescents with systemic lupus erythematosus and familial Mediterranean fever
- Risk behaviors related to violence and injury among school-going adolescents in Karnataka, Southern India
- Polycystic ovary syndrome in Iranian adolescents
- Relational stressors as predictors for repeat aggressive and self-harming incidents in child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient settings
- Effect of life skills training on physical activity patterns amongst school adolescents in Delhi: a non-randomized interventional study
- Association of oral hygiene habits and food intake with the risk of dental caries among undergraduate university women in Saudi Arabia
