The Social Contexts of Drug Offers and Their Relationship to Drug Use of Rural Hawaiian Youths

Abstract

This paper examines the differences in drug offers and recent drug use between Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian youth residing in rural communities, and the relationship between drug offers and drug use of Hawaiian youth in these communities. Two hundred forty nine youth (194 Hawaiian youth) from 7 different middle or intermediate schools completed a survey focused on the social context of drug offers. Hawaiian youth in the study received significantly more offers from peers and family, and had significantly higher rates of recent alcohol and marijuana use, compared with non-Hawaiian youth. Logistic regression analysis indicated that the social context differentially influenced drug use of Hawaiian youth, with family drug offers and context influencing overall drug use and the use of the widest variety of substances. Implications for prevention practices are discussed.

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2014.

“…Fang & Schinke, 2014; Helm, Okamoto, Kaliades, & Giroux, 2014; Okamoto, Helm, et al, 2014; Okamoto, Kulis, Helm, Edwards, & Giroux, 2014; Pedersen et al, 2014; Pokhrel & Herzog, 2014; Savage & Mezuk, 2014; Yu et al, 2014). Substance use emerged as an important health issue across a wide range of developmental periods, including adolescence (e.g., Helm et al, 2014; Okamoto, Kulis, et al, 2014), emerging adulthood (e.g., Jimi Huh, Heesung Shin, et al, 2014; Luczak et al, 2014) and all other periods of adulthood (e.g., Mukherjea et al, 2014; Tsang et al, 2014). The majority of studies used quantitative-correlational designs with analytical methods such as analysis of variance, linear or logistic regression, and structural equation modeling ( n = 15; e.g., Mukherjea et al, 2014).…”

Drug Offers as a Context for Violence Perpetration and Victimization

“…brain storming) to a specified drug offer situation. These situations had been developed from narratives of rural Hawaiian youth (Helm et al, 2008; Okamoto, Helm, Po`a-Kekuawela, Nebre, & Chin, 2010; Okamoto, Helm, Po`a-Kekuawela, Nebre, & Chin, 2009; Po`a-Kekuawela, Okamoto, Helm, Nebre, & Chin, 2009), and were subjected to a series of test development and validation procedures that indicated they are the most frequently experienced and difficult for middle-school students to deal with in their homes, schools, and/or communities (Okamoto, Helm, Giroux, Edwards, & Kulis, 2010; Okamoto, Kulis, Helm, Edwards, & Giroux, 2010; Okamoto, Kulis, Helm, Giroux, Edwards, in press). …”

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2013.

“…Articles mainly centered on alcohol use (n = 11; Banerjee et al, 2014;Blanco et al, 2014;Jimi Huh, Heesung Shin, et al, 2014;Jimi Huh, Thing, Abramova, Sami, & Unger, 2014;Lo, Cheng, & Howell, 2014;Mukherjea, Wackowski, Lee, & Delnevo, 2014;Pagano, Lee, & Sin, 2014;Pokhrel, Little, Fagan, Kawamoto, & Herzog, 2014;Pokhrel, Little, Fagan, Muranaka, & Herzog, 2014;Tsang et al, 2014;Williams & Nigg, 2014) and drug/nonmedical stimulant use, resistance, and treatment (n = 3; Bart, Lenz, Straka, & Brundage, 2014;Okamoto, Pel, Helm, & Valdez, 2014;L.-T. Wu, Swartz, Brady, Blazer, & Hoyle, 2014). Other articles studied substance use more generally, covering cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, or "hard" drugs (n = 8; L. Fang & Schinke, 2014;Helm, Okamoto, Kaliades, & Giroux, 2014;Okamoto, Kulis, Helm, Edwards, & Giroux, 2014;Savage & Mezuk, 2014;. Substance use emerged as an important health issue across a wide range of developmental periods, including adolescence (e.g., Okamoto, Kulis, et al, 2014), emerging adulthood (e.g., Jimi Huh, Heesung Shin, et al, 2014;Luczak et al, 2014) and all other periods of adulthood (e.g., Mukherjea et al, 2014;Tsang et al, 2014).…”

“…Other articles studied substance use more generally, covering cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, or "hard" drugs (n = 8; L. Fang & Schinke, 2014;Helm, Okamoto, Kaliades, & Giroux, 2014;Okamoto, Kulis, Helm, Edwards, & Giroux, 2014;Savage & Mezuk, 2014;. Substance use emerged as an important health issue across a wide range of developmental periods, including adolescence (e.g., Okamoto, Kulis, et al, 2014), emerging adulthood (e.g., Jimi Huh, Heesung Shin, et al, 2014;Luczak et al, 2014) and all other periods of adulthood (e.g., Mukherjea et al, 2014;Tsang et al, 2014). The majority of studies used quantitative-correlational designs with analytical methods such as analysis of variance, linear or logistic regression, and structural equation modeling (n = 15; e.g., Mukherjea et al, 2014).…”