CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY IN ILLICIT DRUG-USE - PATTERNS AND ANTECEDENTS
CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY IN ILLICIT DRUG-USE - PATTERNS AND ANTECEDENTS
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DOI:
10.1177/002204269402400105
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发表时间:
1994-12-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
ELLIOTT, DS
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作者:
ESBENSEN, FA;ELLIOTT, DS
Drug research has tended to focus on initiation and progressions of use. In this article we employ event history analysis to test a social learning model to identify factors associated with both the onset and discontinuity of drug use. Eight waves of the National Youth Survey (NYS), a panel study of a national probability sample of youth in the United States, provide fourteen years (1976-1989) of drug use information for 1,172 respondents aged eleven through thirty. Results include the following. once initiation has occurred, drug use is maintained for an extended timer demographic characteristics have very little effect on either initiation or desistance of drug use; variables representing social learning theory are more important in accounting for initiation than discontinuity of drug user and life events such as marriage and becoming a parent increase the odds of discontinuing drug use.