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Risk and Protection Factors for Substance Use Among Young  People: A Comparative Study of Early School-Leavers and School-Attending Students 

Title: Risk and Protection Factors for Substance Use Among Young People: A Comparative Study of Early School-Leavers and School-Attending Students Authors: Trutz Haase in association with Dr Jonathan Pratschke Published: 28th October 2010 Pages: 140 File Size: 1963 KB Format: Portable Document Format (PDF) To view PDF documents you will need to download Adobe Reader from the Adobe website.

Executive Summary

This report presents the results of a study of substance use among young people in Ireland based on information collected in 2008 during face-to-face interviews with 991 people, aged between 15 and 18. The target population comprised school-attending students and young people who, having left school, were attending either a Youthreach centre for education or FÁS Community Training Centre. This latter population is described in this study as “early school-leavers” and represents approximately 12% of the full annual cohort of early school-leavers.

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