Social rank and inhalant drug use: the case of lanca perfume use in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lanca perfume (chloroform/ether) is an inhalant used mainly by higher social class students in Brazil. In light of the social and epidemiological features of lanca use, supply, and distribution, this investigation tests hypotheses about the degree to which use of inhalant lanca might be occurring in clusters, consistent with social sharing and diffusion, and might show a direct association with social rank even within the relatively privileged social context of private schools in a large mega-city of Latin America.

Methods

Epidemiologic self-report survey data were from a large representative sample of urban post-primary private school students in São Paulo city, Brazil, in 2008. Newly incident lanca use was studied, first with estimates of clustering from the alt

SUBMITTER: Sanchez ZM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4900967 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature