Public-Service Drug-Use Scales: Rationale, Derivation, and Norms
- 1 June 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 34 (3) , 871-876
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1974.34.3.871
Abstract
In several counties in Ohio drug use by school-going teenagers has been found to be less than many have supposed. The author describes the development of four-item drug-use scales for beer and wine, cigarettes, hard liquor, marijuana, speed, LSD, and “other” drugs. He shows drug use to increase with grade level (7th to 12th); boys to outrank girls.Keywords
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