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Sequences of drug involvement in African-American and Puerto Rican adolescents
J S Brook1, B A Hamburg, E B Balka
1Department of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595.
Psychological Reports
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
This study examined stages in drug involvement of 695 African-American and 637 Puerto Rican adolescents. Analysis indicated that adolescents progress through several stages of drug involvement: beer/wine, cigarettes or hard liquor, then marijuana, and, finally, illicit drugs other than marijuana. The sequence of drug involvement for both ethnic groups appears to be both unidimensional and cumulative.