European survey: What’s Georgian schoolchildren’s attitude to alcohol, drugs, cigarette?
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The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD), a project collecting comparable data on substance use among 15-16 year old students in European countries, has released its survey about last year’s findings.
This survey presented the 2015 results for eight selected key variables based on information provided by 96, 043 students from 35 European countries, 24 of them being member states of the European Union.
The eight selected key variables were:
- Cigarette use during the last 30 days
- Alcohol use during the last 30 days
- Heavy episodic drinking during the last 30 days, i.e. having had five or more drinks on one occasion
- Lifetime use of cannabis (marijuana or hashish)
- Lifetime use of illicit drugs other than cannabis (ecstasy, amphetamines, cocaine, crack, LSD or other hallucinogens )
- Lifetime use of tranquillisers or sedatives without a doctor’s prescription
- Lifetime use of inhalants in order to get high
- Lifetime use of new psychoactive substances
Georgian students reported prevalence rates higher or slightly higher than the ESPAD average for five of the eight key variables studied. Heavy episodic drinking in the last 30 days, for example, was reported by 41 % of the students in Georgia, compared to the ESPAD average of 35 %,” the survey said.
Compare Georgian and average data:
The survey also stressed the results for lifetime use of illicit drugs other than cannabis, tranquillisers or sedatives without prescription, inhalants and new psychoactive substances were "all above average.”
For three of the variables the results were below average.
This was true for last-30-day use of cigarettes, last-30-day use of alcohol and for lifetime use of cannabis.
"The overall impression is that the substance-use habits of Georgian students did not differ greatly from the ESPAD average, even though the prevalence rates more often were above rather than below average,” the report read.