Club Drugs/Resource Inequity/Health Risk in Urban Youth

描述（由申请人提供）：这项为期五年的研究题为“俱乐部 城市青年的毒品、资源不平等和健康风险”将确定 影响城市的背景、社会文化和心理因素 青少年和年轻人将俱乐部毒品纳入他们的毒品库中， 药物使用模式随时间的变化以及社会心理、经济和 俱乐部吸毒和并发多种药物混合的健康后果。该研究 回应 NIDA 题为“回应俱乐部毒品和 其他新兴和当前的药物滥用趋势。”研究目的是：1）描述 俱乐部和设计师药物的营销和传播到城市年轻人和 通过俱乐部、下班后和其他社交活动进入青少年毒品市场 活动，并描述这些药物相对于传统药物的含义 街头毒品（普通和高 THC 大麻、含有甲醛的叶子、 酒精、灰尘、可卡因、强效快克和海洛因），2）与两名 时间点相隔8个月，由500名16-30岁的青少年来确定 MDMA 和其他舞蹈药物和处方药的使用模式发生变化，以及 预测因素和使用后果，3）利用信息来开发 街头和派对中舞蹈和处方药风险预防策略 设置。研究的第 1 部分（第 I - 50 个月）将继续建立 城市青年和年轻人所处环境中的民族志研究模式 成年人购买、销售、了解和试验新药物和药物混合。 第 2 部分（第 8 - 58 个月）将涉及管理 对 500 名青少年和年轻人的研究队列进行流行病学/网络调查 年龄在 16 - 30 岁之间。在第 3 部分（第 42-60 个月）中，我们将使用持续 与青年顾问团队合作的研究结果，以开发和 试点测试可接受性 预防相关风险的策略 MDMA 和其他俱乐部吸毒以及在吸毒场所使用的药物混合， 与经销商和用户网络。在整个过程中，我们将回顾并 整合新兴文献，将研究结果与主要理论联系起来 指导研究的概念。该研究的意义在于 新的潜在危险药物传播方式的描述 融入高风险的城市环境，将社会心理纳入其中， 理解毒品销售的经济和背景因素，其重点是 城市青年中多种药物的使用情况及其对邻里关系的调查 药物选择和使用的因素及其与青年和青少年的伙伴关系 青年服务俱乐部和现场看门人参与减少风险。该研究 有望对传播产生新的分析和理论见解 新毒品进入已经饱和的城市青少年毒品市场及其后果 他们的用途。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): This five year study entitled "Club Drugs, Resource Inequities and Health Risks among Urban Youth" will identify the contextual, socio-cultural and psychological factors that influence urban youth and young adults to incorporate club drugs into their drug repertoires, changes in drug use patterns over time, and the psychosocial, economic and health consequences of club drug use and concurrent polydrug mixing. The study responds to NIDA's RFA DA-0 1 -0 10 entitled "Responding to Club Drugs And Other Emerging And Current Drug Abuse Trends." Study aims are to: 1) describe the marketing and diffusion of club and designer drugs into urban youth and young adult drug markets through clubs, after-hours, and other social activities, and describe the meaning of these drugs in relation to traditional street drugs (regular and high THC marijuana, leaves with formaldehyde, alcohol, dust, cocaine, crack and heroin), 2) conduct a panel study with two time points eight months apart with 500 youth ages 16 - 30 to deter-mine changes in patterns of MDMA and other dance and prescription drugs, and predictors and consequences of use, 3) utilize the information to develop strategies for dance and prescription drug risk prevention in street and party settings. Component 1 (Months I - 50) of the study will continue established patterns of ethnographic research in settings where urban youth and young adults buy, sell, learn about and experiment with new drugs and drug mixing. Component 2 (Months 8 - 58) will involve administering an epidemiologic/network survey to the study cohort of 500 youth and young adults between the ages of 16 - 30. In Component 3 (Months 42-60) we will use ongoing study results in partnership with a team of youth consultants to develop and pilot test for acceptability a strategy for preventing risks associated with MDMA and other club drug use and drug mixing to be utilized in drug use sites, with distributors and in networks of users. Throughout, we will review and integrate emerging literature linking findings to the primary theoretical concepts guiding the study. The significance of the study lies in its description of the ways in which new potentially dangerous drugs are diffused into a high risk urban environment, its incorporation of the psychosocial, economic and contextual factors in understanding drug selling, its focus on understudied polydrug use among urban youth, its examination of neighborhood factors in drug selection and use, and its partnership with youth and youth-serving clubs and site gatekeepers to engage in risk reduction. The study promises to produce new analytic and theoretical insights into the diffusion of new drugs into already saturated urban youth drug markets and the consequences of their use.