Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kandel, Denise

Titel

Stages in Adolescent Involvement in Drug Use

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 1975-11, Vol.190 (4217), p.912-914

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

1975

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Two longitudinal surveys based on random samples of high school students in New York State indicate four stages in the sequence of involvement with drugs: beer or wine, or both; cigarettes or hard liquor; marihuana; and other illicit drugs. The legal drugs are necessary intermediates between nonuse and marihuana. Whereas 27 percent of high school students who smoke and drink progress to marihuana within a 5- to 6-month follow-up period, only 2 percent of those who have not used any legal substance do so. Marihuana, in turn, is a crucial step on the way to other illicit drugs. While 26 percent of marihuana users progress to LSD, amphetamines, or heroin, only 1 percent of nondrug marihuana users and 4 percent of legal drug users do so. This sequence is found in each of the 4 years in high school and in the year after graduation. The reverse sequence holds for regression in drug use.