How many young people in Canada use tranquilizers?
In 1990 five percent of the Canadian population (1,032,150 people) reported having used tranquilizers within the previous year. Based on a 1989 Ontario survey, 3.1 percent of high school students aged 13 to 19 years, or an estimated 80,000 teenaged Canadians, used tranquilizers for medical purposes at least once in the previous year; 2.4 percent, or an estimated 60,000 young Canadians, used tranquilizers for non-medical purposes. In 1992, 5 percent of street youth reported using tranquilizers in the previous year. In 1989 in Ontario, 5.8 percent of people aged 18 to 29, or an estimated 300,000 Canadians, reported using tranquilizers in the past 12 months.
