Protecting Alabama Students from Alcohol and Drugs: A Multi-Level Modeling Approach

Lo, Celia C.; Anderson, Anita S.; Minugh, P. Allison; Lomuto, Nicoletta

doi:10.1177/002204260603600309

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“…Race is important to consider in light of the race-specific challenges that African-Americans face in terms of substance abuse exposure and recovery (Brown, 2006). Sex was included because males have been associated with higher levels of substance abuse and other criminal/deviant behaviors than females (Lo, Anderson, Minugh, & Lomuto, 2006). The bonding variables measured an individual's stake in their families and communities and served as preventative measures against deviant behaviors such as substance abuse.…”

Section: Spirituality Self and Substance Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Religiosity, Spirituality, and Substance Abuse

Allen¹,

Lo²

2010

Journal of Drug Issues

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Religiosity and spirituality are concepts often considered means of reducing substance abuse and are employed in substance abuse recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous.Substance abuse is a serious social problem in the United States, a country in which religiosity and spirituality have been subject to change and re-definition, especially since the social turmoil of the 1960s. This study utilized data from the 2004 General Social Survey to examine the effects of religiosity and spirituality on substance abuse and to understand that social bonding may mediate the effects of religiosity on substance abuse outcomes. Four substance abuse outcomes were examined: lifetime crack use, lifetime injection drug use, drinking problem in the past year, and illegal substance use in the past year. A three-stage multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the effects of religiosity and spirituality on substance abuse outcomes as well the hypothesized mediating status of social bonding. The results show that, with few exceptions, religiosity was negatively associated with substance abuse. Further, social bonding variables did slightly mediate the negative relationship between religiosity and substance abuse. As expected, spirituality increased the odds of some measures of substance abuse after religiosity was controlled. Policy implications and further research are discussed.iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Section: Spirituality Self and Substance Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Religiosity, Spirituality, and Substance Abuse

Allen¹,

Lo²

2010

Journal of Drug Issues

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“…Two variables were used to assess the frequency of alcohol use over lifetime and frequency of alcohol use past 30 days. The research study provided evidence that strong family ties did offer protection against the use of alcohol and other drugs [5]. In a separate study, students from a sample of undergraduate students were almost 1.5 times likely to abstain from alcohol if their mother abstained from alcohol as those whose mother was a drinker [6].…”

Section: Cultural Influences and Family Valuesmentioning

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“…Lo et al, [5], surveyed 98,822 students in Alabama that were enrolled for the 2002 spring term. Two variables were used to assess the frequency of alcohol use over lifetime and frequency of alcohol use past 30 days.…”

Section: Cultural Influences and Family Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Protective factors and college student drinking patterns in pre and post Katrina New Orleans

Florkowski¹,

Walter²,

Kowalczyk³

et al. 2013

Health

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Rates of heavy drinking, tobacco use and illicit substance use peak among college students between 18 and 25 years of age. Attitudes, personal characteristics, and behaviors that are called protective factors could play a role in reducing college students' use of alcohol and drugs. We studied the relationships between selected protective factors and alcohol consumption in college students from a public commuter university in New Orleans, Louisiana pre-and postHurricane Katrina utilizing the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey (CADS) Long Form. We applied Hirschi's social control theory to examine the relationships between drinking and the identified protective factors. Three research questions with null and alternative hypotheses were tested to explore the impact of Hurricane Katrina on protective factors and drinking utilizing linear/ logistic and multivariate regression models to test the hypotheses. We found that post-Katrina students were on average about 1.5 years older and drank approximately 1.5 more drinks per week than pre-Katrina students. Both pre and post Katrina age, gender, and race/ethnicity were significantly related to drinking among these groups of college students such that older students, women, and non-Whites tended to have reduced odds of drinking. There were no statistically significant relationships between individual protective factors or any group of protective factors and drinking after controlling for age, gender, and race/ethnicity indicating that these 3 individual characteristics that cannot be altered were stronger predictors of drinking than any other factors we tested.

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“…Surprisingly, they found that neighborhood disadvantage was associated with decreased frequency of alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use among these students. Moreover, the effects of both protective and risk factors were reduced for students living in disadvantaged neighborhoods (Lo et al, 2006). Snedker et al's (2009) findings were similarly inconsistent with the social disorganization theory.…”

Section: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Substance Usementioning

confidence: 96%

“…These studies found that neighborhood context affected the strength of individual protective and risk factors for adolescent alcohol use (Chuang et al, 2009;Snedker et al, 2009). Lo, Anderson, Minugh, and Lomuto (2006) examined protective and risk factors for the frequency of drug and alcohol use in a sample of nearly 93,000 middle-and high-school students in Alabama. Surprisingly, they found that neighborhood disadvantage was associated with decreased frequency of alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use among these students.…”

Section: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhood, School, and Family Effects on the Frequency of Alcohol Use Among Toronto Youth

Browning

2011

Substance Use & Misuse

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This study examines the effect of neighborhood, school, and family indicators on adolescent drinking. The Toronto Drugs, Alcohol, and Violence International (DAVI) data were collected in 2001-2002. The sample was stratified both by region (city vs. outskirts) and by the socio-economic status of the schools. Two schools from each stratum were randomly selected and 910 students completed the survey. The survey contains extensive measures of substance use, violence, and mental health. The study uses cluster analysis and multinomial logits to examine the variation in the effect of schools, family, and demographic indicators on alcohol use across neighborhood contexts. Study implications and suggestions for future research are included. The study was partially funded by NIDA grant #R01-DA11691-01A1.

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Protecting Alabama Students from Alcohol and Drugs: A Multi-Level Modeling Approach

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

Religiosity, Spirituality, and Substance Abuse

Religiosity, Spirituality, and Substance Abuse

Protective factors and college student drinking patterns in pre and post Katrina New Orleans

Neighborhood, School, and Family Effects on the Frequency of Alcohol Use Among Toronto Youth

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