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Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS): national overview 2018
Overview of findings on alcohol, drug use and smoking from the 2018 wave of the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS).
Key Prevalence Measures
Drinking in the last week remains more common than smoking regularly or having used drugs in the last month.
Smoking prevalence has remained unchanged since 2015. However, there have been increases in drinking in the last week (among 13 year old of both genders and among 15 year old boys) and using drugs in the last month (among 13 year old boys) in the same period.
Figure 1: Prevalence of smoking, drinking and drug use (2018)
Contact
Email: salsus@gov.scot
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