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Factors in the Drug Involvement of Inner City Junior High School Youths: a Discriminant Analysis

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  • Richard Dembo

    (Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York 13676)

  • James Schmeidler

    (New York State Office of Drug Abuse Services, Division of Cost Effectiveness and Evaluation, 2 World Trade Center, New York, New York 10047)

  • William Burgos

    (Columbia University, School of Social Work, New York, New York 10029)

Abstract

DATA from a survey of youths attending an inner city junior high school were examined to learn how their demographic characteristics, socio-cultural experiences and the drug use existing among their neighbourhood peers related to their involvement with substances. Discriminant analysis uncovered two important factors that were associated with the youths' drug taking : (1) a street scene, social / recreational drug use factor and (2) a cluster reflecting friends' use of alcohol/ marijuana and other drugs. The implications of these results for drug abuse prevention programming are explored.

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  • Richard Dembo & James Schmeidler & William Burgos, 1979. "Factors in the Drug Involvement of Inner City Junior High School Youths: a Discriminant Analysis," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 25(2), pages 92-103, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:25:y:1979:i:2:p:92-103
    DOI: 10.1177/002076407902500204
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    1. Johnston, L.D., 1974. "Drug use during and after high school: results of a national longitudinal study," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 64(S1), pages 29-37.
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