Drug culture expertise and substance use
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- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Vol. 21 (5) , 625-637
Abstract
This study concerns the relationship between knowledge of “drug culture” and substance use. Results from a sample of 2,635 middle and high school students indicate that (1) knowledge of drug culture is positively correlated with substance use; (2) drug knowledge is more reliable and coherent in older youth; (3) drug knowledge is unrelated to other kinds of knowledge acquired in school; (4) youth exposed to peers' substance use in school have more drug knowledge; and (5) the earlier young people begin using drugs and alcohol, the more they know about the drug culture. Results suggest that knowledge of the drug culture may be an unobtrusive indicator of substance use problems.Keywords
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