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The Irish students are about as likely to drink alcohol as the average ESPAD student (78% had done so during the past 12 months), but they get intoxicated more often: about half of the students (47%) reported having been drunk during the past 12 months. (Data on alcohol volumes consumed on the latest drinking day are missing.) A somewhat smaller proportion of students in Ireland had smoked during the past 30 days (23%) compared with the ESPAD average. Lifetime use of cannabis (20%) is about average, as is lifetime use of drugs other than cannabis (10%). The use of inhalants (15%), on the other hand, is more prevalent in Ireland than in many other ESPAD countries. Rather few (3%) of the Irish students had used tranquillisers or sedatives without a prescription. The proportion who had used pills in combination with alcohol (7%) is close to the ESPAD mean. |
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