South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU): key alcohol and drug abuse trends: July-December 2000

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dc.date.accessioned 2003-08-15 en
dc.date.accessioned 2023-09-01T07:02:03Z
dc.date.available 2023-09-01T07:02:03Z
dc.date.issued 2015-08-25 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/8414
dc.description June en
dc.description.abstract The SACENDA Project, an alcohol and other drug (AOD) sentinel surveillance system operational in Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Gauteng (Johannesburg / Pretoria. The system, initiated in 1996, monitors trends in AOD use and associated consequences on a six monthly bases using multi-source information from specialist treatment centres (50+), psychiatric hospitals, mortuaries, trauma units, the Police (SA Narcotics Bureau, Organised Crime Unites & Forensic Science Laboratories), and from research conducted in schools and with sex workers, street children, persons attending primary health care clinics, arrestees, and persons attending rave parties. Key findings are that the proportion of patients under 20 years has increased substantially over time (eg. in Cape Town from 6% in 1996 to 24% in 2000 and in Gauteng from 11% in 1998 to 18% in 2000. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.subject ADOLESCENTS en
dc.subject YOUTH en
dc.subject DRUG USE en
dc.subject SUBSTANCE ABUSE en
dc.title South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU): key alcohol and drug abuse trends: July-December 2000 en
dc.type Research report-other en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.BudgetYear 2001/02 en
dc.ResearchGroup Child, Youth and Family Development en
dc.ArchiveNumber 2258 en
dc.URL http://ktree.hsrc.ac.za/doc_read_all.php?docid=2291 en
dc.outputnumber 671 en
dc.bibliographictitle Parry, C., Pluddemann, A., Bhana, A., Matthysen, S., Potgieter, H. & Gerber, W. (2001) South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU): key alcohol and drug abuse trends: July-December 2000. (June). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/8414 en
dc.publicationyear 2001 en
dc.contributor.author1 Parry, C. en
dc.contributor.author2 Pluddemann, A. en
dc.contributor.author3 Bhana, A. en
dc.contributor.author4 Matthysen, S. en
dc.contributor.author5 Potgieter, H. en
dc.contributor.author6 Gerber, W. en


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