Did the under-reporting of meth/amphetamine use increase in a general population survey in Australia as negative media coverage increased?
@article{Chan2021DidTU,
title={Did the under-reporting of meth/amphetamine use increase in a general population survey in Australia as negative media coverage increased?},
author={Gary Chung Kai Chan and Tianze Sun and Carmen C.W. Lim and Daniel Stjepanovi{\'c} and Brienna N. Rutherford and Benjamin Johnson and Wayne D. Hall and Janni K Y Leung},
journal={Addiction},
year={2021},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:245363541}
}In Australia, the actual prevalence of lifetime meth/amphetamine use may be two to four times higher than that estimated in the most recent national household surveys (2019), and the level of under-reporting is strongly associated with increasing negative attitudes towards methylamphetamine and d-amphetamine use over the same period.
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