L. Kubicka et al., THE SUBSTANCE SPECIFICITY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, COFFEE AND DRUG-USE BY CZECH WOMEN, Addiction, 88(6), 1993, pp. 813-820
The paper reports results of an analysis based on face-to-face intervi
ews with two samples of Prague women aged 20-49: (1) a probabilistic s
ample (n = 718) of the Prague female Population; and (2) a sample of 1
52 inpatients treated for substance dependence/abuse. Of the inpatient
s, 79% were diagnosed as alcohol dependent only, 15% as both alcohol d
ependent and drug dependent/abusers, 6% as drug dependent only. With v
ery few exceptions, those with drug problems among the inpatients abus
ed analgesics, hypnotics, or anxiolytics. With data obtained from the
general population sample, two-stage hierarchical logistic regression
was run with each of the eleven differently defined substance uses as
dependent variables. Four demographic variables were entered as predic
tors into the regression equations in the first stage. From the seven
potential risk factors of substance use statistically significant pred
ictors were entered stepwise in stage two. The major result of the stu
dy is the specificity of the pattern of predictors related to each of
the eleven considered substance uses. It is also found that in the gen
eral population the use of a particular substance is generally uncorre
lated with the use of other substances. Alcohol use (even heavy alcoho
l use) has no relation to smoking, to the use of analgesics, hypnotics
, anxiolytics-and is connected with a specific pattern of predictors.