Substance use in Northwest Ethiopia
25 but lower than 86.1% in Little Rock, Arkansas, 14 90% in alcoholic women in Michigan, USA, 20 58.1% in Ethiopia among psychiatric patients who use substance. 23 For this discrepancy, factors like social sensitivity for substance use, cultural pattern for substance use, methodological differences and socio-cultural factors might be responsible. Joblessness (AOR = 4.92, 95% CI = 3.19, 7.60) and lower wealth (AOR = 1.70, 95% CI = 1.09, 2.65) had a significant association with perceived stigma. As WHO report points out that the economic crises had a negative mental health outcomes 3 and substa...
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