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Original Articles

Drug Use Among Youth on Probation: Differences in Characteristics and Explanatory Factors

Pages 45-62 | Published online: 11 Jan 2011
 

ABSTRACT

This study examines relationships among adolescent drag use and family relationships, aspirations, school involvement, and delinquent behaviors. Participants were youth on probation in Utah during 1992. Analysis of variance was used to identify differences among nonusers, experimenters and high users. A stepwise multiple regression was used to examine factors related to drag use. Friends, alcohol or marijuana use, plans for future drag use during adulthood and selling drags were significantly related to both marijuana and alcohol use. It is hypothesized that attention to thinking patterns related to lifestyle selection may result in supporting lifestyle changes related to drug uses that are positive in nature. Communities, youth workers, probation officers and youth on probation all contribute to the influence and development of thinking patterns and must be involved in solutions to the problem of adolescent drag use.

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