A cross sectional study on psychoactive drug use among school-going adolescents: Data from drug burdened hot-spots in Malaysia.

This data belongs to a sample of 3382 students from 5 different zones, gazetted as drug-burdened hotspots in Malaysia. The data consists of the sample's demographic characteristics and the prevalence rate of psychoactive drug use among school-going adolescents. The Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was utilized to measure the frequency of drug consumption by type and the adolescents’ involvement in drug abuse and drug-related behaviour.

本数据集源自马来西亚五个不同区域的3382名学生样本，这些区域已被官方认定为药物负担热点。数据集包含了样本的人口统计学特征以及在校青少年中精神活性药物使用率的流行情况。酒精、吸烟及物质滥用筛查测试（ASSIST）被用于衡量各类药物消费的频率以及青少年在药物滥用及与药物相关行为中的参与度。