Several risk factors, which increment the probability of using alcohol and other illegal substances, like family dysfunction have been considered.
The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with alcohol and other substances abuse in a sample of 1997 students from senior high school from Mexico City. The mean age of the adolescents was 16.7 (s.d.1.7). 52.7% were females and 47.3% males, 56% studied in the morning and 43.8% in the afternoon. Some variables were considered like adolescents’ age, grades, time-schedule in which they went to school, type of family and stressful life-events were considered specifically.
The identification of adolescents at risk was done with AUDIT andASSIST. A binary logistic regression was calculated in order to identify those factors that increment alcohol, tobacco and other illegal substances use. Results indicate that a single parent family, being older and stressful life events, among others, increment risk consumption of alcohol and other substances.