CONSEQUENCES OF PRIOR DRUG USE FOR YOUNG ADULTS

描述（申请人摘要）：20年代中期的生活时期 30岁出头是决定一个人对社会的贡献的关键， 在更广泛的社会中发挥作用。随着个体从早期到 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 将成为药物滥用者或药物依赖者的妇女， 30岁之前的问题，其中绝大多数在20岁到30岁之间 30.通常情况下，物质使用开始时，这些人是青少年。 充分利用独特的兰德青少年/青年 成人数据库。我们提出了一个研究计划，以确定波动如何 在物质使用和社会角色的变化是相关的，侧重于两个 青年期的关键时期：24岁（青年早期）和30岁 （成熟的年轻人）。我们的具体目标是：1）探索模式 物质的使用，稳定性和变化在17年的时间，并审查 18岁、24岁和30岁时问题使用的风险和保护因素; 2）测试 青少年和年轻成人物质使用之间的预测关系， 24岁和30岁时家庭的形成和运作，包括结婚， 离婚、养育子女和家庭暴力; 3）测试预测关系 青少年和年轻成人物质使用与教育程度之间的关系， 职业选择，以及24岁和30岁时的劳动力市场参与。建筑 在我们过去和现在对物质使用的前因和后果的研究中， 我们建议补充现有的面板数据（包括8个波 13至24岁），并在30岁时进行随访调查， 学校和社区的因素在几个时间点。该小组涵盖 所有经济水平的个人、不同种族/民族的人 背景和辍学者由此产生的数据库将允许我们 评估个人和社区因素的独特贡献， 和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.