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Table 2 Prevalence of past year user, current user and lifetime user of substances

From: Correlates for psycho-active substance use among boarding secondary school adolescents in Enugu, South East, Nigeria

Substances

Past year use

N = 896

Current use

N =896

Lifetime use

N = 896

Kolanut

457 (51.0 %)

313 (34.9 %)

569 (63.5 %)

Alcohol

435(48.5 %)

183 (20.4 %)

531 (59.3 %)

Coffee

159 (17.7 %)

121 (13.5 %)

176(19.6 %)

Tobacco

55 (6.1 %)

26 (2.9 %)

92 (10.3 %)

Tranquillizers

63 (7.0 %)

42(4.7 %)

90 (10.0 %)

Cannabis

7 (0.8 %)

4 (0.4 %)

7 (0.8 %)