NCJ Number
166891
Editor(s)
C L Jones,
R J Battjes
Date Published
1985
Length
291 pages
Annotation
These 12 papers review research on the childhood and adolescent factors related to juvenile drug use, drug use patterns during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, and implications for drug prevention programs.
Abstract
Individual papers consider the impact of early childhood and preadolescent socialization experiences on adolescent drug use from a developmental perspective and factors that influence the child's developing belief system about health practices and the use of medicines and abusable substances. Additional papers relate theoretical perspectives underlying common prevention approaches with young children to etiologic research findings, describe changes in patterns of juvenile drug use since the early 1970's, discuss factors that differentiate the risk of drug use from the risk of drug dependence among adolescents and young adults, and analyze the relationship between drug use and drug abuse with other behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. Further papers review the periods of risk for initiation of different types of drugs, analyze the sequential relationships among use of different substances, and link empirical findings on drug abuse causes to the development of prevention programs. Figures, tables, reference lists, and list of other monographs on drug issues