Factors in the Drug Involvement of Inner City Junior High School Youths: a Discriminant Analysis*

Richard Dembo, James Schmeidler and William Burgos
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Richard Dembo: Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York 13676
James Schmeidler: New York State Office of Drug Abuse Services, Division of Cost Effectiveness and Evaluation, 2 World Trade Center, New York, New York 10047
William Burgos: Columbia University, School of Social Work, New York, New York 10029

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1979, vol. 25, issue 2, 92-103

Abstract: DATA from a survey of youths attending an inner city junior high school were examined to learn how their demographic characteristics, socio-cultural experiences and the drug use existing among their neighbourhood peers related to their involvement with substances. Discriminant analysis uncovered two important factors that were associated with the youths' drug taking : (1) a street scene, social / recreational drug use factor and (2) a cluster reflecting friends' use of alcohol/ marijuana and other drugs. The implications of these results for drug abuse prevention programming are explored.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1177/002076407902500204

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