Interpersonal Influences on Male Drug Use and Drug Use Intentions

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Abstract
The relationship between the respondent''s perception of the drug behavior of his father, mother, siblings, current friends and wife/female partner and past drug use and future drug use intentions for tobacco, alcohol, marihuana, pyschedelics, stimulants, sedatives, heroin, other opiates and cocaine was examined among a representative sample of men in the population of the USA who were 20-30 yr old in 1974 (N = 2510). For each drug, current friends'' and wife/partner''s behaviors were the factors most strongly associated with the respondent''s past drug use as well as his intentions of future drug use. Although substantially less important, siblings'' drug behavior was apparently a source of influence, while the drug behavior of mothers and fathers were minimally associated with drug use and future intentions.

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