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Finland
Key results 2007
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Many of the Finnish students had been drunk during the past year, and they drank a relatively large amount of alcohol on their latest drinking day, but rather few reported any use of illicit drugs. The proportion of students reporting alcohol consumption during the past 12 months (77%) was somewhat lower than the ESPAD average, but nearly half of the students (45%) had been drunk during the same period. The volumes of alcohol consumed on the latest drinking day (5.7 cl alc. 100%) were also somewhat higher than average. The prevalence of cigarette smoking during the past 30 days (30%) is about average, but the lifetime prevalence of cannabis use (8%) is less than half of the ESPAD average. Lifetime use of drugs other than cannabis is also rare in Finland (3%). The prevalence rates for the other behaviours reported here – lifetime use of inhalants (10%), non-prescription use of tranquillisers or sedatives (7%) and use of alcohol in combination with pills (9%) – are all very close to the ESPAD average. |
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Salme Ahlström
Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction, THL
P O Box 30
Fin-00271 Helsinki
Finland
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Tel: + 358 040 502 6316
Fax: +358 206107170
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Petri Huhtanen
Alcohol and Drug Research, STAKES
P O Box 220
Fin-00531 Helsinki
Finland
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Leena Metso
National Institute for Health and Welfare,Department of Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction
P.O. Box 30
FI-00271 Helsinki
Finland
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Tel: +358 20 610 7016
Fax: +358 20 610 7170
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Kirsimarja Raitasalo
THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare)
Mannerheimintie 164 A (P.O. Box 30)
00271 Helsinki
Finland
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Tel: +358 20 610 7005
Fax: +358 20610 7170
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