CONSEQUENCES OF PRIOR DRUG USE FOR YOUNG ADULTS

简介(申请人摘要)：跨过20岁中期的人生阶段S 而30岁出头的S在确定一个人对 在更广泛的社会中发挥作用。随着个体从早期发展到 成熟的年轻人，他们形成并巩固了他们作为配偶，父母， 和工人。与此同时，87%的男性和83%的男性 曾经有过吸毒者或药物依赖经历的女性 30岁之前的问题，其中绝大多数在20岁到20岁之间 30.通常情况下，这些人在青少年时期就开始使用药物。 利用独特的兰德青少年/青年所提供的机会 成人数据库。我们提出了一个研究计划，以确定波动如何 在物质使用上与社会角色的变化是相关的，集中在两个方面 青壮年关键时期：24岁(青壮年早期)和30岁 (成熟的青壮年)。我们的具体目标是：1)探索 在17年期间的物质使用、稳定性和变化，并检查 18、24和30岁问题使用的风险和保护因素；2)测试 青春期和青壮年物质使用和 24岁和30岁时家庭的形成和运作，包括结婚和 离婚、养育子女和家庭暴力；以及3)测试预测关系 青少年和青壮年药物使用和教育程度之间的关系， 24岁和30岁时的职业选择和劳动力市场参与。建房 关于我们过去和现在对物质使用的前因和后果的研究， 我们建议补充现有的面板数据(包括8个浪 年龄在13岁到24岁之间)，在30岁时进行跟踪调查，并提供关于 学校和社区在几个时间点上的因素。这块面板包括 所有经济水平的个人，来自不同种族/第六代的人 背景和辍学情况。生成的数据库将允许我们 评估个人和社区因素对早期的独特贡献 以及成熟的年轻人的行为。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): The period of life spanning the middle 20's and early 30's is critical in determining an individuals contribution to and functioning within the broader society. As individuals progress from early to mature young adulthood, they form and solidify their roles as spouses, parents, and workers. At the same time, eighty-seven percent of men and 83 percent of women who will ever be drug abusers or drug dependent experience onset of problems before age 30, the vast majority of them between the ages of 20 and 30. Typically, substance use began when these individuals were adolescents. Capitalizing on the opportunities afforded by the unique RAND Adolescent/Young Adult database. We propose a program of research to determine how fluctuations in substance use and changes in social roles are related, focusing on two critical periods of young adulthood: age 24 (early young adulthood) and 30 (mature young adulthood). Our specific aims are to: 1) Explore the patterns of substance use, stability and change over a period of 17 years and examine the risk and protective factors for problem USE at ages 18, 24 and 30; 2) Test predictive relationships between adolescent and young adult substance USE and family formation and functioning at ages 24 and 30, including marriage and divorce, parenting, and domestic violence; and 3) Test predictive relationships between adolescent and young adult substance USE and educational attainment, occupational choice, and labor market participation at ages 24 and 30. Building on our past and current studies of substance use antecedents and consequences, we propose to supplement the existing panel data (which includes 8 waves between age 13 and 24) with a follow-up survey at age 30 plus secondary data on school and community factors at several time points. This panel covers individuals at all economic levels, persons from diverse racial/6thnic backgrounds, and school dropouts. The resulting database will allow us to assess the unique contributions of individual and community factors to early and mature young adult behavior.