Objective
Having a paid work appears among the factors associated with the onset of drug usage by teenagers. This paper aims to estimate the association between the insertion in the labor market and last year usage of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or cocaine in a sample of 1,961 students aging 14 to 17 on two medium-sized cities in southern Brazil.
Methods
Prevalence ratios were estimated, first adjusted for sex and age, and then adjusted also for sex, age, and then to sex, age, and supervision of internet use at home.
Results
Prevalence rates indicated significant association among the insertion in the labor market and the consumption of the interest substances, but when adjusting for gender and age, only the association with tobacco use remained significant and it disappeared when parent’s supervision was included in the model of analysis.
Conclusions
Data show that among adolescents yet linked to school, enter the job market and use of those substances in the year expand similarly, but much more influenced by advancing age, according to gender specificities and according to patterns of care at home.
Alcohol; tobacco; street drugs; work; student; teenager