Links between Psychotropic Substance Use and Sensation Seeking in a Prevalence Study: The Role of Some Features of Parenting Style in a Large Sample of Adolescents

Table 1

Prevalence of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among adolescents according to age, psychotropic substance, and gender.

	Male %	Female %	All %
Age
15 years	16.4	10.7	13.3
16 years	25.8	16.8	21.0
17 years	35.8	22.8	28.8
18 years	42.3	25.0	32.3
19 years	46.8	29.6	37.5
Last 30 days’; substance use
Tobacco (≥10 cigarettes)	7.7	5.3	6.4
Heavy drinking	19.5	8.1	13.3
Cannabis	20.4	13.2	16.5
Solvents	2.8	0.9	1.8
Tranquilizers	0.9	2.4	1.7
Amphetamine	0.7	0.3	0.5
LSD	0.8	0.3	0.5
Crack	0.5	0.1	0.3
Cocaine	1.9	1.0	1.4
Heroin smoked	1.4	0.7	1.0
Heroin	0.3	0.0	0.2
Ecstasy	1.0	0.4	0.7
Steroids	0.6	0.1	0.3
Any other drugs	0.3	0.1	0.2
Alcohol + pills	1.3	0.5	0.8
Alcohol + cannabis	15.7	9.5	12.3
Total	34.2	21.6	27.3