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Abstract
Despite theoretical and policy-oriented concerns about early drug use among adolescents, relatively little research has focused exclusively on pre-teen and early teen populations. This article offers a profile of drug use and attitudes among junior high school-age youth from three types of midwestern communities. Examining responses from 1004 young adolescents, the authors describe experience with and attitudes toward drug use for this population as a whole, as well as variations between and among groups by gender, age, grade level, ethnicity, and community size.