Sequences of Drug Involvement in African-American and Puerto Rican Adolescents
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 71 (1) , 179-182
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1992.71.1.179
Abstract
This study examined stages in drug involvement of 695 African-American and 637 Puerto Rican adolescents. Analysis indicated that adolescents progress through several stages of drug involvement: beer/wine, cigarettes or hard liquor, then marijuana, and, finally, illicit drugs other than marijuana. The sequence of drug involvement for both ethnic groups appears to be both unidimensional and cumulative.Keywords
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