Burden of drug use disorders among adolescents in Ethiopia
- Drug use disorder is a disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medicine.
- Drug use disorder causes disability, mental illnesses, loss of productivity, and death, especially in young people.
- Only few fragmented drug use disorder studies done in the country.
- The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence, death, years lived with disability, and years of life adjusted for disability of drug use disorder among adolescent in Ethiopia.