The Growing Disparity in Illegal Drug Use Across Socioeconomic Strata

不同社会经济阶层非法药物使用的差异日益扩大

• 批准号: 7262683
• 负责人: Richard A Miech
• 金额: $ 24.94万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER/HSC DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-20 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7262683
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adopted; Adult; Age; Back; Categories; Causations; Characteristics; Child; Childhood; Cocaine; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data; Data Set; Diffusion; Diffusion of Innovation; Disadvantaged; Drug usage; Drug user; Education; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Health; Health Status; Incidence; Individual; Intervention; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Longitudinal Surveys; Marijuana; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Methamphetamine; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Plant Roots; Policies; Policy Research; Prevalence; Prevention; Principal Investigator; Process; Publishing; Race; Relative (related person); Research; Schools; Social Mobility; Socioeconomic Status; Surveys; Testing; Time; Uncertainty; Update; Woman; Work; age group; cohort; directed attention; ecstasy; experience; falls; innovation; intervention program; low socioeconomic status; psychologic; racial and ethnic; sex; social; socioeconomics; stem; trend; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A disparity in illegal drug use that disadvantages individuals in the lower socioeconomic strata has significantly increased in the last two decades. New evidence indicates that this increase results in large part from a changing influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on drug use, and not from a negative influence of drug use on SES that has accumulated over time. However, the SES-related influences responsible for this growing disparity remain largely unknown. . The aims of this study are threefold. First, it will address limitations in current evidence on the growing disparity of illegal drug use across socioeconomic strata. Using the most current, available data the project will (a) update analyses of socioeconomic trends in cocaine past 1998 (b) examine socioeconomic trends up to the present in illegal drugs that have not yet been examined, such as marijuana, methamphetamine, ecstasy, and 'blunts,1 (c) examine whether the growing disparity sterns from differential incidence and/or differential duration of drug use across socioeconomic strata, and (d) examine SES indicators other than education. These analyses will use the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a nationally- representative, cross-sectional survey of drug use administered yearly, although between 1979 and 1988 it was administered only every third year. Second, the study will predict both changes in the prevalence of illegal drugs over time and also changes in the characteristics of illegal drug users over time. We use a "Diffusion of Innovation" framework, which predicts that users of an innovation such as illegal drugs fall into distinct categories such as "innovators," "early adopters," and "late adopters." People in each of these categories are theorized to differ from each other in terms of sociodemographic, psychological, and environmental characteristics. Furthermore, the profiles of drug users at one point in time are expected to predict the prevalence of drug use in the future. The third aim of the project is to trace the extent to which the key predictors of illegal drug use, as highlighted by the Diffusion framework, have their roots in the early life course. Using a longitudinal survey that has followed 838 children from 1st grade to age 30, the analysis will examine how far back in the life course current predictors of illegal drug use extend. We expect that many early predictors have not yet been linked to later drug use because the current profile of illegal drug users, which includes factors such as low socioeconomic status, did not emerge until recently. Results from this project will inform policy and intervention programs aimed at reducing the prevalence of illegal drug use across all socioeconomic strata.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的二十年中，非法使用药物使用的差异使社会经济阶层中的个人处于劣势已大大增加。新的证据表明，这种增加导致很大程度上是由于社会经济地位（SES）对药物使用的影响的不断变化，而不是由于药物使用对随着时间而积累的SES的负面影响。但是，与SES相关的影响造成这种日益增长的差异仍然很大未知。 。这项研究的目的是三倍。首先，它将解决有关当前证据的局限性，即在社会经济阶层中非法使用毒品的差异日益增长。 Using the most current, available data the project will (a) update analyses of socioeconomic trends in cocaine past 1998 (b) examine socioeconomic trends up to the present in illegal drugs that have not yet been examined, such as marijuana, methamphetamine, ecstasy, and 'blunts,1 (c) examine whether the growing disparity sterns from differential incidence and/or differential duration of drug use across社会经济阶层和（d）检查教育以外的其他指标。这些分析将使用全国毒品使用和健康调查，这是对每年进行药物使用的全国代表性，横断面调查，尽管在1979年至1988年之间，仅每三年进行一次管理。其次，这项研究将预测非法药物随着时间的流行率的两种变化，也可以预测非法吸毒者随时间的特征的变化。我们使用“创新的扩散”框架，该框架预测，非法药物等创新的用户属于“创新者”，“早期采用者”和“晚期采用者”等不同类别。这些类别中的每个人都被认为是在社会人口统计学，心理和环境特征方面彼此不同的。此外，预计吸毒者的概况预计将来会预测药物使用的流行。该项目的第三个目的是追踪非法毒品使用的主要预测因素，如扩散框架所强调的，其源于早期生活课程。使用纵向调查，该调查已跟踪了1年级至30岁的838名儿童，该分析将检查生命过程中非法使用药物使用的预测指标。我们预计，许多早期预测因素尚未与后期的吸毒有关，因为当前非法吸毒者的特征（包括低社会经济状况之类的因素）直到最近才出现。该项目的结果将为旨在降低所有社会经济阶层中非法使用的政策和干预计划提供依据。