Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Different Worlds

   Pages 1-12

3. Context and Design of the Study

   • George J. Warheit

   Pages 13-36

4. Substance Use and Other Social Deviance

   • George J. Warheit, Andres G. Gil

   Pages 37-70

5. Pathways to Drug Use

   • William A. Vega, Andres G. Gil, Bodhan Kolody

   Pages 71-93

6. Are Girls Different? A Developmental Perspective on Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Substance Use among Adolescents

   • Elizabeth L. Khoury

   Pages 95-123

7. Cultural Adjustment and Hispanic Adolescent Drug Use

   • William A. Vega, Andres G. Gil, Eric Wagner

   Pages 125-148

8. Developmental Patterns of African American Adolescent Drug Use

   • Frank Biafora, Rick Zimmerman

   Pages 149-175

9. Prevention Implications and Conclusions

   Pages 177-196

10. Back Matter

    Pages 197-234

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This book presents new and important information about adolescent drug use. The book is intended for human service professionals, teachers, researchers, and students interested in the issue of early adolescent drug use and its causes and pervasiveness in a multiethnic population. Today, the field of adolescent drug use research relies on integrative models that permit competing explanations of drug use. This approach promotes flexibility in testing hypotheses pertinent to adol- cents of very different social and cultural backgrounds or personal characteristics. Longitudinal studies, including the one presented in these pages, have identified many risk and protective factors or processes that are linked to adolescent drug use. We review these throughout this book and present new information from our own research. Our point of departure is to extend and elaborate descriptive research and models of adolescent drug research to cover the unique and diverse experiences of adolescents who are Hispanic, African American, and White non-Hispanic.

• Design
• Nation
• behavior
• environment
• gender
• prejudice
• social deviance

"The authors...make significant contributions to understanding the complexity of teenage drug use, especially in recognizing the weakness of theories of deviance and pathology...The book includes an excellent and comprehensive bibliography."
Choice, October 1998

• University of California Berkeley, Berkeley

  William A. Vega

• Florida International University, Miami

  Andres G. Gil

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