Prevalence of drug use among adults with intellectual disabilities compared with drug use in the general population.
Oddbjørn HoveEva BiringerOdd E HavikJörg AssmusKirsten J BraatveitSilje Elisabeth Hasmo HolmMonica HermannPublished in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2019)
Adults with IDs use more drugs than adults in general. However, the findings showed lower rates of drug use in the ID sample than in the general population for drugs targeting diseases that are the leading causes of death in individuals with IDs.