Twenty-year trends in illicit drug use among young Israelis completing military duty

Addiction

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 641-648

  Neumark, Yehuda D ^a   Grotto, Itamar ^a,b,c   Kark, Jeremy D ^a,b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Illicit drugs; Israel; Jews; Military; Young adults

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; ILLICIT DRUG;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; QUESTIONNAIRES; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2342426517     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00716.x     Document Type: Article

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