[Problems concerning the use of alcohol and other dependence including drugs used by children and adolescents of the region of Lodz in the years 1980-1992 in the light of epidemiological studies by the Institute of Mental Hygiene of the Military Academy of Medicine].

In the years 1980-1992 the authors with the cooperation of persons quoted in the References, investigated children from elementary and secondary schools, among them particularly children of unemployed parents, recruits, students of high schools and juvenile alcoholics and drug addicts. They found a decrease in the age of initiation of the use of alcohol and drugs in the last years, significant increase in the use of alcohol in all investigated groups and described the common reasons and mechanisms of development of dependency among children and youth.