Adults' Drug Use: Relationship to Perceived Drug Use of Parents, Friends While Growing Up, and Present Friends
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Vol. 6 (3) , 291-300
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00952997909001719
Abstract
Results from a random household survey of the Boston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area [Massachusetts, USA] show a consistent and relatively strong association of adults'' use of coffee, tobacco, alcohol, tranquilizers and marihuana with their perceptions of present friends'' use. Associations with parents'' and past adolescent friends'' use are much weaker. The results support efforts to explain illicit drug use with general theories of behavior acquisition and cast doubt on the utility of deviance theories.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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