Life-Style and Drug Involvement Among Youths in an Inner City Junior High School
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 15 (2) , 171-188
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088009040006
Abstract
Data gathered in a winter 1976 survey of youths attending a New York City junior high school were analyzed to learn how features of their life-styles related to their involvement with drugs. The results indicate that the youths' substance use is an environmentally related phenomenon. The factors of peer-held esteem of drug using, gang involved persons, friends' use of alcohol and marijuana, and participation in spare-time activities of a drug/street culture nature were found to provide important insights into the youths' drug taking.Keywords
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