Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: findings from the WHO world mental health surveys

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2008

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34709
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Degenhardt, Louisa
Chiu, Wai Tat
Karam, Aimee
Kostyuchenko, Stanislav
Lépine, Jean-Pierre
Mora, Maria Elena Medina
Neumark, Yehuda
Ormel, J Hans
Pinto-Meza, Alejandra
Posada-Villa, José
Stein, Dan J
Takeshima, Tadashi
Sampson, Nancy
Wells, J Elisabeth
Kessler, Ronald C
Anthony, James C
Angermeyer, Matthias
Bruffaerts, Ronny
de Girolamo, Giovanni
Gureje, Oye
Huang, Yueqin
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PLoS Medicine

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https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141
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Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health
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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) World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative.
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Degenhardt, L., Chiu, W.T., Sampson, N., Kessler, R.C., Anthony, J.C., Angermeyer, M., Bruffaerts, R. & de Girolamo, G. et al. 2008. Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: findings from the WHO world mental health surveys. PLoS Medicine. 5(7):e141 - 177. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34709

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