Prevention of Young Adult Drug Use in Club Settings

描述（由申请人提供）：该申请为期2年，用于测试与年轻人（18-25岁）吸毒相关的三个主要领域（主办者特征/影响、场地/活动设置特征和参与者特征）之间的关系，以及举办电子音乐舞蹈活动（EMDEs）的俱乐部环境中与毒品相关的问题和其他问题。随后，一份竞争性的延续申请将被提交，以测试一种基于环境的预防方法在俱乐部设置与年轻成人顾客。因为针对这个年龄段的预防项目大多局限于大学环境，所以没有在大学环境中的年轻人被遗漏了。我们在俱乐部环境中的初步工作已经测试了我们的方法，并产生了支持这一应用的发现。具体来说，根据我们的生物检测和药物使用的自我报告，我们发现55%的EMDEs参与者不是学生，最近使用（24小时内）非法药物的比例为30%。与会者报告了与吸毒或活动有关的几个问题（例如，酒后驾车、遭受攻击）。该申请的具体目的是：(1)确定EMDEs中与吸毒有关的场地和活动的环境特征，以及与毒品有关的问题和其他问题；(2)确定EMDE主办者（即场地所有者、场地管理者、活动组织者、活动推动者）的特征和做法与参与者吸毒以及毒品相关问题和其他问题之间的关系；(3)确定参会者的个人特征和药物使用史与其药物/酒精使用水平和药物使用/问题危险行为的关系；(4)确定环境、宿主和参与者对吸毒以及毒品相关问题和其他问题的相对贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for 2 years of funding to test relationships between three major domains (host characteristics/influences, venue/event setting characteristics, and participant characteristics) associated with young adult (18-25 years of age) drug use, as well as drug-related and other problems in club settings where electronic music dance events (EMDEs) are held. Subsequently, a competing continuation application will be submitted to test an environmentally based prevention approach in club settings with young adult patrons. Because prevention programs for this age group are mostly limited to college settings, young adults not in college settings are missed. Our preliminary work in club settings have tested our methodologies and yielded findings that support this application. Specifically, we found that 55% of our attendees at EMDEs were not students and recent use (within a 24-hour period) of illegal drugs was 30%, based on our bioassays and self-reports of drug use. Several problems associated with either drug use or with the event were reported by attendees (e.g., driving under the influence, experiencing aggression). The specific aims for this application are (1) to determine the environmental characteristics of venues and events at EMDEs that are associated with drug use, as well as drug-related and other problems; (2) to determine the relationships between characteristics and practices of EMDE hosts (i.e., venue owners, venue managers, event organizers, event promoters) and attendees' drug use, as well as drug-related and other problems; (3) to determine the relationships of attendees' personal characteristics and history of drug use to their levels of drug/alcohol use and their drug use/problems risky behaviors; and (4) to determine the relative contribution of environment, hosts, and participants to drug use, as well as drug-related and other problems.