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Drug Use and Ethnicity in Early Adolescence

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. William A. Vega

    1. University of California Berkeley, Berkeley

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  2. Andres G. Gil

    1. Florida International University, Miami

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

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"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

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California Berkeley, Berkeley

    William A. Vega

  • Florida International University, Miami

    Andres G. Gil

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