Furthermore, there was an increasing trend in the prevalence of these characteristics that paralleled the severity of running away.
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Running away experience and psychoactive substance use among adolescents in Taiwan: multi-city street outreach survey.
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However, the differences between the two groups did not reach statistical significance, with the post hoc pairwise comparisons in aORs (95% CI) being 1.1 (0.7-1.7), 1.3 (0.7-2.2), 1.8 (0.8-3.9), and 1.5 (0.7-3.4) for alcohol, tobacco, betel nut, and illegal drug use, respectively.
It needs to be noted that, despite the magnitude of the OR for illegal drug/inhalant use, this failed to reach statistical significance probably due to the small number of subjects with such an experience within the last 6 months.