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Table 3 Prevalence of life time use of the various substances base on gender (sex)

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

Substances

Male

(n = 482)

Female

(n = 414)

Kolanut

474 (98.3 %)

95 (22.9 %)

Alcohol

298 (61.8 %)

233 (56.3 %)

Coffee

133 (27.6 %)

26 (6.3 %)

Tranquillizers

49(10.2 %)

41 (9.9 %)

Tobacco

85 (17.6 %)

7 (1.7 %)

Cannabis

7 (1.5 %)

0 (0.0 %)

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BMC Pediatrics

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