At the margins: Drug use by vulnerable young people in the 1998/99 Youth Lifestyles Survey: Home Office research study 228

Goulden, Chris; Sondi, Arun

doi:10.1037/e454442008-001

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“…A youth-lifestyles survey of young people in England and Wales also found that truants and school excludes were four-times more likely to have tried a drug in their lifetime than school attendees, with experience of having used a class A drug (such as heroin, cocaine or ecstasy) in the last month also significantly higher (Goudlen & Sondhi, 2001). Many studies of young people have failed to account adequately for the increased risk of drug use among school truants and excludees since they rely on schoolbased survey samples (Lloyd, 1998;Goudlen & Sondhi, 2001).…”

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Risk factors associated with drug use: the importance of ‘risk environment’

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Lilly

Fernández³

et al. 2003

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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This paper discusses research findings on non-biological risk factors associated with illicit drug use. There is an established body of North American research in this field, and a growing European literature. We find that there is an interplay of individual and environmental factors associated with drug use, with the permeation of their interactions potentially limitless. Within the behavioural science literature, we identify three main analytical dimensions for understanding 'risk factors'. These are: 'intrapersonal'; 'microenvironmental'; and 'macro-environmental'. We note that it is not new to emphasize drug use as a social activity, involving social interactions within particular social environments, but that, despite this, the balance of focus in research tends towards 'extra-environmental' or 'individualistic' interpretations. We emphasize that future research is best oriented towards generating data of practical value for the development of interventions rather than attempting to delineate causative factors. The failure of most risk factors research rests in its incapacity to capture the variety of social and environmental influences on drug use, and the relevance of these for developing socially appropriate interventions. In addition to recognizing the importance of targeting interventions towards 'high risk' populations and 'high risk' forms of drug use, we emphasize throughout the importance of the 'risk environment' in mediating patterns of drug use.

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Section: Personal Vulnerability and Problem Behaviourmentioning

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Risk factors associated with drug use: the importance of ‘risk environment’

Rhodes

Lilly

Fernández³

et al. 2003

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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“…Risk factors related to such identifi able group memberships can be used to aid the targeting of services/interventions. (Goulden and Sondhi, 2001a;McCrystal et al, 2005). However, both quantitative and qualitative methodology should be used to explore the subtler psychological processes associated with young people's reference groups (e.g.…”

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“…However, in real life, many risk factors for the development of substance misuse exist on continuums, rather than in dichotomous 'all or nothing' form. There are degrees of offending and degrees of homelessness (Goulden and Sondhi, 2001a); being offi cially accepted as homeless by a local authority is different from being insecurely housed, or 'being a runaway'. This paper argues that where data collection methods by local authorities and their partners fail to refl ect differences in the degree to which young people experience specifi c risk factors, valuable opportunities for early intervention and preventative work are missed.…”

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“…Biehal and Wade (2000) reported that young people who 'go missing' from care 'often' are more likely to be involved in substance use than those who have gone missing less frequently. Goulden and Sondhi (2001a) It is crucial to note these variations in the degree to which specifi c risk factors are experienced within very highly vulnerable membership groups because where there are degrees of vulnerability there are also degrees of need. Recognising such variation can help local authorities identify populations of vulnerable young people, and to plan and provide services for them, as described below.…”

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Vulnerable young people and substance misuse: expanding on the risk and protection‐focused approach using social psychology

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This paper critically reviews recent research exploring risk and protective factors for the development of problematic substance use in populations of young people. Specifi c populations of young people who are most vulnerable to developing problematic patterns of use are identifi ed, and alterations to methods of data collection which would improve the ability of local authorities to monitor these populations and more effi ciently target them for early preventative interventions are highlighted. It is argued that social-psychological research techniques and approaches should be used to complement a risk and protection-focused approach in order to improve the design and evaluation of interventions, and provide decision-aids for practitioners when assessing the needs of vulnerable young people. Examples are provided to demonstrate the utility of social psychology in this regard, and the paper concludes with specifi c recommendations for future research and services. Copyright (DfES, 2005) has linked drug misuse with the Every Child Matters Agenda, and emphasised a need to improve service cooperation, accountability, delivery, prevention and early intervention with vulnerable individuals, and to build service and workforce capacity. The UK Drug Strategy (HM Government, 2008) has pledged to expand approaches to prevention to focus on children and families before problems arise, and to take a wide preventative view that is focused not only on substances themselves, but also on other substanceuse-related risk factors. This paper will critically review recent research exploring risk and protective factors for the development of problematic substance use in populations of young people. Risk and protection-focused research is useful because a range of identifi ed risk factors can be viewed as markers of vulnerability for substance misuse; and risk factors related to specifi c identifi able group memberships can be used to help local authorities target relevant services (e.g. drugs education/outreach, social work support) at high risk populations of young people. However, in real life, many risk factors for the development of substance misuse exist on continuums, rather than in dichotomous 'all or nothing' form. There are degrees of offending and degrees of homelessness (Goulden and Sondhi, 2001a); being offi cially accepted as homeless by a local authority is different from being insecurely housed, or 'being a runaway'. This paper argues that where data collection methods by local authorities and their partners fail to refl ect differences in the degree to which young people experience specifi c risk factors, valuable opportunities for early intervention and preventative work are missed. Moreover, while a risk and protection-focused approach is useful for identifying areas of vulnerability which can be targeted to try to promote et al., 2007) noted that beliefs explain just as much variance in drug use as risk factors do. In order to work more effectively with populations of vulnerable young people, we need more exp...

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“…Stein et al (1999) discovered that 16-17 year olds in unstable living situations were particularly likely to offend while running. In a national study serial runaways were found to have higher than normal rates of drug misuse (Goulden and Sondhi 2001).…”

Section: Runaways and Homeless Youthmentioning

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A Place To Call Your Own: does housing need make a difference to crime?

Grimshaw¹

2002

Criminal Justice Matters

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At the margins: Drug use by vulnerable young people in the 1998/99 Youth Lifestyles Survey: Home Office research study 228

Cited by 26 publications

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Risk factors associated with drug use: the importance of ‘risk environment’

Risk factors associated with drug use: the importance of ‘risk environment’

Vulnerable young people and substance misuse: expanding on the risk and protection‐focused approach using social psychology

A Place To Call Your Own: does housing need make a difference to crime?

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