Perceived Drug Use Functions and Risk Reduction Practices Among High-Risk Nonmedical Users of Prescription DrugsJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 43 Số 4 - Trang 483-496 - 2013
Karol Silva, Aleksandar Kecojevic, Stephen E. Lankenau
Nonmedical use of prescription drugs has become the fastest growing drug problem
in the United States, particularly among young adults. This study examines the
reasons young polydrug users misuse prescription drugs, and explores how young
users employ risk reduction strategies to minimize adverse consequences. The
sample was recruited during 2008 and 2009 in Los Angeles and New York, and
comprised... hiện toàn bộ
An Exploratory Study of Socio-Cultural Factors Contributing to Prescription Drug Misuse among College StudentsJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 36 Số 4 - Trang 903-931 - 2006
Gilbert Quintero, Jeffery Chaichana Peterson, Bonnie N. Young
Although recent increases in collegiate prescription drug misuse have generated
a great deal of concern, there are few analyses available that examine the
socio-cultural factors influencing these trends. This article attempts to
address this gap in knowledge by providing an analysis of several socio-cultural
factors influencing pharmaceutical misuse by college students. Prescription
drugs are put ... hiện toàn bộ
Do Drug Courts Work? Getting inside the Drug Court Black BoxJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 31 Số 1 - Trang 27-72 - 2001
John S. Goldkamp, Michael D. White, Jennifer B. Robinson
This article argues that evaluation of drug courts will benefit not only from an
organizing typology (Goldkamp, 1999a, 2000) that focuses research on the
critical structural elements of the drug court model but also from an
understanding of how drug courts are thought to deliver their impact. In
developing a causal model of drug court impact, the analysis separates
assessment of impact into two in... hiện toàn bộ
Community Attitudes to Cannabis Use in Western AustraliaJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 26 Số 4 - Trang 783-804 - 1996
Simon Lenton, Claudia Ovenden
This paper presents results of a telephone survey of 400 Western Australians
regarding attitudes to laws relating to possession of cannabis for personal use.
Over a third of respondents believed cannabis should be made as legal as
alcohol. Support for decriminalization increased from 64.0% to 71.5% when
possible penalties associated with decriminalization were described. When
penalties were descri... hiện toàn bộ
Drug Generations in the 2000sJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 43 Số 3 - Trang 335-356 - 2013
Andrew Golub, Henry H. Brownstein
Much empirical evidence indicates that the popularity of various drugs tends to
increase and wane over time producing episodic epidemics of particular drugs.
These epidemics mostly affect persons reaching their late teens at the time of
the epidemic resulting in distinct drug generations. This article examines the
drug generations present in the 2000s among arrestees in the 10 locations served
by ... hiện toàn bộ
Community Characteristics and Methamphetamine Use: A Social Disorganization PerspectiveJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 39 Số 3 - Trang 547-576 - 2009
Justin Hayes-Smith, Rachel Bridges Whaley
The current study applied the first macro-level analysis of methamphetamine use.
The extant literature on macro-level drug use has suggested that areas with high
levels of social disorganization experience high rates of drug use. In this
study it was expected that school districts with low SES and high rates of
ethnic heterogeneity, residential instability and family disruption will
experience hig... hiện toàn bộ
Everybody’s Doing ItJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 44 Số 3 - Trang 236-253 - 2014
Heather Z. Mui, Paloma Sales, Sheigla Murphy
In this article, we present findings from a qualitative National Institute on
Drug Abuse-funded study of nonmedical prescription drug users in the San
Francisco Bay Area. We interviewed young adults between the ages of 18 and 25
years, who used prescription drugs nonmedically at least 12 times in the 6
months prior to the interview. Employing Aker’s Social Learning Theory and
Zinberg’s Drug, Set, ... hiện toàn bộ
Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use and Delinquency: An Analysis with a National SampleJournal of Drug Issues - Tập 38 Số 2 - Trang 493-516 - 2008
Jason A. Ford
There is an abundance of research on the association between substance use and
delinquency. However, an area yet to be examined is the association between
nonmedical prescription drug use and delinquency. This is important given the
substantial increase in nonmedical prescription drug use in recent years and the
fact that recent national surveys of substance use show that the prevalence of
nonmedi... hiện toàn bộ