Journal•ISSN: 0022-0426
Journal of Drug Issues
SAGE Publishing
About: Journal of Drug Issues is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Substance abuse & Poison control. It has an ISSN identifier of 0022-0426. Over the lifetime, 2113 publications have been published receiving 48502 citations. The journal is also known as: JDI & Drug issues.
Topics: Substance abuse, Poison control, Population, Medicine, Addiction
Papers published on a yearly basis
Papers
More filters
TL;DR: A conceptual framework is presented for examining the drugs/violence nexus and drugs and violence are seen as being related in three possible ways: the psychopharmacological, the economically compulsive, and the systemic.
Abstract: Drug use and drug trafficking are examined as etiological factors in the creation of violence. A conceptual framework is presented for examining the drugs/violence nexus. Drugs and violence are see...
1,214 citations
TL;DR: In this article, five developmentally distinctive features of emerging adulthood are proposed: the age of identity explorations, the unstable age, the instability, the self-focus, the feeling in-between, and the possibility of possibilities.
Abstract: The theory of emerging adulthood has been proposed as a way of conceptualizing the developmental characteristics of young people between the ages of 18 and 25. Here, the theory is applied to explaining the high rates of substance use in this age group. Specifically, five developmentally distinctive features of emerging adulthood are proposed: the age of identity explorations, the age of instability, the age of self-focus, the age of feeling in-between, and the age of possibilities. Then, each of these features is applied to an explanation of drug use in emerging adulthood.
896 citations
TL;DR: Future programming implications are discussed as Peer Programs were identified as effective for the average school-based adolescent population, but the Alternatives programs were shown to be highly successful for the “at risk” adolescents such as drug abusers, juvenile delinquents or students having school problems.
Abstract: Presented is a meta-analysis of the outcome results for 143 adolescent drug prevention programs to identify the most effective program modalities for reducing teenage drug use. Glass' et al. (1981) meta-analysis techniques provided a systematic approach for the accumulation, quantification and integration of the numerous research findings. Five major modalities were identified and their effect sizes computed for five distinctly different outcomes: Knowledge, Attitudes, Use, Skills and Behavior measures. The magnitude of the effect size was found dependent on the outcome measure employed and the rigor of the experimental design. These factors were controlled for through use of a standard regression analysis. Peer Programs were found to show a definite superiority for the magnitude of the effect size obtained on all outcome measures. On the ultimate criteria of drug use, Peer Programs were significantly different than the combined results of all the remaining programs (p < .0005). Peer Programs maintained h...
682 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a review of major findings in research on parental-peer linkages is presented, and the sources of distortion and overestimation in peer effects are identified: reliance on cross-sectional designs, which confound selection and socialization effects; reliance on perceptual reports of friends' behaviors, which reflect projection and attribution; failure to take into account parental contributions to children's peer selection; and failure to consider genetic contributions to observed parental effects.
Abstract: Estimates of the relative influence of peers and parents on adolescents' drug use and other forms of deviance have inflated the importance of peers and underestimated the influence of parents. Following a brief review of major findings in research on parental-peer linkages, sources of distortion and overestimation in peer effects are identified: reliance on cross-sectional designs, which confound selection and socialization effects; reliance on perceptual reports of friends' behaviors, which reflect projection and attribution; failure to take into account parental contributions to children's peer selection; and failure to consider genetic contributions to observed parental effects. Selected empirical studies that have estimated peer and parental effects on drug use and delinquency from relational and longitudinal designs are utilized to develop correction factors. These are incorporated in equations designed to estimate biases in peer estimates and the effects of parental contributions to peer selection. ...
452 citations
TL;DR: A cohort in Baltimore Maryland in 1988–1989 was established to identify risk factors for infection with the human immunodeficiency virus and for progression to the acquired immunODeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among intravenous drug users and methodological issues for enhancing recruitment and retention of drug users are discussed.
Abstract: To identify risk factors for infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and for progression to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) among intravenous drug users, we established ...
439 citations