The Relationship between Friends' Marijuana Use, Family Cohesion, School Interest and Drug Abuse Prevention

Babst, Dean V.; Miran, Michael; Koval, Mary

doi:10.2190/1eug-umvq-rmc6-j75j

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“…For decades researchers have studied the social factors influencing drug use among adolescents and young adults (Babst et al, 1976; Best et al, 2005; Duan et al, 2009; Hawkins et al, 1992; Hoffman et al, 2006; Jinez et al, 2009; Kafka and London, 1991; Kandel, 1980; Kandel et al, 1978a; Korsnick and Judd, 1982; Li et al, 2000; Miller-Day, 2002; Newcomb et al, 1983; Oetting and Beauvais, 1986; Piko, 2001; Sargent and Dalton, 2001; Stanley and Lo, 2009; Steinberg et al, 1994; Wright and Fitzpatrick, 2004). Strong associations have been reported between the initiation and maintenance of adolescent drug use and intrapersonal characteristics, drug availability, peer influences, family structure, and parental factors.…”

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The association between parental risk behaviors during childhood and having high risk networks in adulthood

Rudolph

Jones

Latkin

et al. 2011

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background Prior research suggests that both social networks and parent drug use influence individual drug use among adolescents and that peers continue to influence drug use among adults. This analysis aims to determine whether parent drug use during childhood is associated with having drug-using networks in adulthood after adjusting for individual adult drug use. Methods 650 young adult drug users were recruited through targeted street outreach and respondent-driven sampling in New York City (2006-2009). Baseline surveys ascertained demographics, network characteristics, drug use behaviors, and parental drug use during childhood. Negative binomial regression was used to evaluate this association. Results The median age was 33 years, 22% injected, 49% were Black, and during childhood 26% of mothers, 32% of fathers, and 13% of primary caregivers used drugs. After adjustment, having >1 parent who used drugs was associated with having a greater proportion of drug using (Adjusted Prevalence Ratio [APR]=1.18; 95%CI:1.01-1.38) and specifically crack-smoking networks (APR=1.71; 95%CI: 1.21-2.43) in adulthood. Females’ networks consisted of more drug users (APR=1.18; 95%CI: 1.01-1.38), injectors (APR=1.44; 95%CI: 1.09-1.90), crack smokers (APR=1.48; 95%CI: 1.18-1.87) and heroin users (APR=1.43; 95%CI: 1.13-1.81); blacks had a greater proportion of crack smoking (APR=1.41; 95%CI: 1.09-1.82), but a smaller proportion of injecting (APR=0.64; 95%CI: 0.43-0.94) and heroin smoking (APR=0.60; 95%CI: 0.47-0.77) networks as adults. Conclusions These data suggest that parental drug use is independently associated with having drug-using networks in adulthood. Interventions that target parents and caregivers and that promote drug cessation could impede risky network formation in both adolescents and adults.

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The association between parental risk behaviors during childhood and having high risk networks in adulthood

Rudolph

Jones

Latkin

et al. 2011

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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The impact of family context, deviant attitudes, and emotional distress on adolescent drug use: Longitudinal latent-variable analyses of mothers and their children

Newcomb

Bentler

1988

Journal of Research in Personality

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Rules and Limits in the Use of Marijuana among High-School Students: The Results of a Qualitative Study in Ontario

Warner¹,

Room²,

Adlaf³

1999

Journal of Youth Studies

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Social norms that govern high-school students in their use of marijuana are examined. Attitudes toward marijuana and its use were discussed in 49 focus groups conducted in Ontario between 1996 and 1997. The participants numbered 278. Their remarks provide evidence for the existence of normative boundaries separating adolescents who use marijuana on an occasional and social basis from those who use it in isolation and on a frequent basis, as well as from those who abstain altogether. These boundaries, it is argued, effectively limit use, and would appear to be far more developed than those governing the same adolescents in their use of alcohol.

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The Relationship between Friends' Marijuana Use, Family Cohesion, School Interest and Drug Abuse Prevention

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

The association between parental risk behaviors during childhood and having high risk networks in adulthood

The association between parental risk behaviors during childhood and having high risk networks in adulthood

The impact of family context, deviant attitudes, and emotional distress on adolescent drug use: Longitudinal latent-variable analyses of mothers and their children

Rules and Limits in the Use of Marijuana among High-School Students: The Results of a Qualitative Study in Ontario

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