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The Education-Drug Use Connection - How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency (Paperback)
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The Education-Drug Use Connection - How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency (Paperback)
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Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug
use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in
adolescent development and health--the education-drug use
connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal
connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior,
and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.
The book uses data from the University of Michigan's "Monitoring
the Future" project. It focuses on a large and nationally
representative sample of 8th grade students in the United States
who were initially surveyed in 1991-1993 and then followed over the
vitally important developmental period between ages 14 and 22. The
volume uses a variety of statistical analysis techniques, and the
findings can be understood by individuals with limited, as well as
with extensive, backgrounds in research design. The findings
convincingly demonstrate that if young people can be successful in
school, it can improve a broad range of outcomes in their lives,
not the least of which is their ability to resist pressures to use
drugs. The book provides: a summary of the findings and
conclusions; a review of relevant literature; a detailed discussion
of the survey and analysis methods; the academic attainment of
those in the longitudinal panel; the delinquent behaviors of panel
members as they relate to measures of educational success; and the
patterns of initiation, continuation, and cessation for each
substance: cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol.
This book is intended for anyone who deals with education and/or
substance use, including educational, developmental, and social
psychologists; sociologists; epidemiologists;educators; and policy
makers. The analysis of panel survey data, using a variety of
techniques, will also appeal to survey methodologists and students.
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