The Clinical Characteristics of Adolescents Reporting Methamphetamine as Their Primary Drug of Choice: An Examination of Youth Admitted to Inpatient Substance-Abuse Treatment in Northern British Columbia, Canada, 2001–2005

We conducted a 5-year medical-chart review of all admissions to an inpatient adolescent substance-abuse program. Youth indicating methamphetamine as their primary drug of choice did not have worse dropout rates or a more severe baseline profile on 4 Addiction Severity Index subscales (Family/Social Conflict, Legal, Psychological, and Medical), compared to adolescents reporting another drug of choice.