Students' Self-Reported Substance Use by Grade Level and Gender

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza Nagel ◽  
Dennis McDougall ◽  
Cheryl Granby
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Drug Prevention ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Statistical Results

Over 900 students in the rural northwest at the fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth grade levels were surveyed for alcohol and drug use. The survey instrument measured self-reported usage of seventeen substances. The descriptive statistical results are reported by gender as well as grade-level usage rates. Discussion includes targeting drug prevention programs for specific grade and gender levels based upon the results.

Students' Self-Reported Substance Use by Grade Level and Gender

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza Nagel ◽  
Dennis McDougall ◽  
Cheryl Granby
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Drug Prevention ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Statistical Results

Over 900 students in the rural northwest at the fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth grade levels were surveyed for alcohol and drug use. The survey instrument measured self-reported usage of seventeen substances. The descriptive statistical results are reported by gender as well as grade-level usage rates. Discussion includes targeting drug prevention programs for specific grade and gender levels based upon the results.

Community-Based Approaches to the Prevention of Substance Use-Related Problems

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Gruenewald ◽  
Andrew J. Treno ◽  
Harold D. Holder ◽  
Elizabeth A. LaScala
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Harmful Alcohol ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Environmental Prevention

Scientific research into the environmental prevention of alcohol and drug-use problems has a distinguished history, with the goal of identifying environmental factors that can be modified to reduce harmful alcohol and drug use. This chapter shows how effective community-based prevention programs have applied environmental prevention strategies to reduce substance use and abuse. Although not all environmental prevention strategies can be implemented at the community level, communities can use a number of these strategies to reduce heavy drinking, access to harmful legal products, and related problems. The authors contrast environmental prevention strategies with individual-based approaches to highlight differences and demonstrate synergies that exist between efforts to change substance use environments and programs that attempt to affect personal choices to use or abuse drugs. The authors highlight the global breadth of community-based prevention research efforts and contributions to broader based international efforts that benefit all societies, inform community-based prevention programs, and complement individual-based prevention strategies.

Substance Use Portrayal in Oscar-nominated Movies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia ◽  
Felipe Gil ◽  
Antonio Ventriglio ◽  
Julio Torales ◽  
Ligia Florio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Monitoring Drug ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Multiple Drugs ◽  
Gender Convergence

Background: As one of the forms of media and art most consumed in the world, Oscar-nominated movies should have their drug use representation monitored because of possibly influencing but also reflecting society’s behavior. Objective: To investigate drug use representation in scenes from movies nominated for the Academy Awards (Oscar) from 2008-2011, through media content analysis. Methods: 437 scenes from Oscar-nominated movies (best film, best actor and best actress categories) showing drug consumption and/or its effects were assessed. Each drug represented and identified in a given scene (i.e., drug use incident) was counted as a unit for the present study (n = 515). Survey settings were used to control for over- or under-estimation of the prevalence of a variable in a given year or movie. Results: All the Oscar-nominated movies portrayed at least one scene of drug use. There was a massive predominance of alcohol and tobacco in movies, with a high use among men who also use drugs, habitually or occasionally, but related to stress/tension, predominantly at home. However, there was a significant progressive increase in the use of drugs other than alcohol and tobacco, multiple drugs, and by women. Conclusion: These findings echo epidemiological studies on substance use in western countries, an overall trend towards greater home drug use representation and gender convergence since 1970, which increased since 2000. Monitoring drug use representation in Oscar-nominated movies may represent an important public health tool.

scholarly journals Associations between History of Hospitalization for Violence Victimization and Substance-Use Patterns among Adolescents: A 2017 Korean National Representative Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 1543
Author(s):  
Yeji Lee ◽  
Kang-Sook Lee
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Violence Victimization ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
History Of ◽  
Victimization Experience

Violence victimization can adversely affect adolescents’ long-term health. Existing research has mainly focused on the link between victimization and substance use; however, the evidence obtained to date has been inconsistent. This study, using a Korean national representative sample, examined the association between violence victimization and substance-use patterns (including tobacco, alcohol, and drug use) in terms of sex and number of violence victimization experiences. We analyzed secondary data from the 2017 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey. Chi-squared test analyses and logistic regression analysis were used to examine substance use in terms of violence victimization; additionally, p-values for trends were calculated to reveal the dose-response relationship per number of violence victimization experiences. We consequently found that participants’ rates of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use were higher among those who experienced violence victimization than among those who did not. For each substance-use-related variable, the greater the violence victimization experience, the higher the odds of substance use (p for trend < 0.001). Early intervention may help prevent the development of substance use, especially among adolescents who have experienced violence victimization. Prevention efforts regarding substance abuse and violence prevention should be included in school curricula to effectively prevent adverse health consequences among adolescents.

Patterns of Student Drug Use

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Galli
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
School Students ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Student Drug Use

A description of the socio-demographic characteristics associated with student drug use is discussed. Of particular interest is the fact that this study explored the extent and nature of drug use among elementary school students as well as students in the junior and senior high school. Findings indicate that while drug usage began to increase in the seventh grade, substantial increases occurred after this grade level. For all substances, drug use peaked in the ninth or tenth grade with dramatic decreases occurring in the twelfth grade. The implications of these and other findings are discussed.

Alcohol and Drug Use as Risk Factors for Delinquent Behavior Among Adolescents

2016 ◽  
pp. 552-574
Author(s):  
Helene Raskin White ◽  
Courtney Cronley ◽  
Padmini Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Acute Effect ◽  
Adolescent Delinquency ◽  
Developmental Patterns ◽  
Adolescent Substance ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Adolescent Aggression ◽  
Time Frames

This chapter examines alcohol and drug use as risk factors for delinquency during adolescence. There is strong evidence for comorbidity between substance use and delinquency for individuals. Users, compared to nonusers, are more likely to be delinquent; and delinquents, compared to nondelinquents, are more likely to use substances. Conversely, substance use and delinquency follow different developmental patterns from adolescence into young adulthood, and trends in adolescent substance use and delinquency from 1980 through 2009 do not converge well. Alcohol, compared to drugs, has a stronger acute effect on adolescent aggression/violence. Developmentally, there appears to be a reciprocal association between substance use and delinquency, although findings differ across samples and time frames. There are several alternative models that explain why alcohol and drug use are risk factors for adolescent delinquency.

Effects of lifetime tobacco, alcohol and drug use on psychological and behavioral problems among 10th grade students in Istanbul

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuneyt Evren ◽  
Bilge Evren ◽  
Muge Bozkurt ◽  
Arzu Ciftci-Demirci
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
10Th Grade ◽  
Behavioral Variables ◽  
Dependent Variables

Abstract Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of life-time tobacco, alcohol, and substance use on psychological and behavioral variables among 10th grade students in Istanbul/Turkey. Materials and methods: This study employed a cross-sectional online self-report survey conducted in 45 schools from the 15 districts in Istanbul. The questionnaire featured a section about use of substances, including tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. The depression, anxiety, anger, assertiveness, sensation seeking and impulsiveness subscales of the Psychological Screening Test for Adolescents (PSTA) were used. The analyses were conducted based on 4957 subjects. Results: Logistic regression analyses were conducted with each school with the related and behavioral variables as the dependent variables. Gender, tobacco, alcohol, and drug use being the independent variables. All four independent variables predicted the dependent variables. Lifetime tobacco and drug use had significant effects on all the subscale score, whereas lifetime alcohol use had significant effects on all the subscale scores other than lack of assertiveness, and male gender was a significant covariant for all the subscale scores. Drug use showed the highest effect on dependent variables. Interaction was found between effects of tobacco and alcohol on anxiety, whereas interactions were found between effects of tobacco and drugs on lack of assertiveness and impulsiveness. Conclusion: The findings suggested that male students with lifetime tobacco, alcohol or drug use have particularly high risk of psychological and behavioral problems. The unique effects of substance clusters on these problems may be useful in developing secondary preventive practices for substance use and abuse problems in Istanbul.

scholarly journals Illicit Drug Use and Problem Gambling

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ferentzy ◽  
W. J. Wayne Skinner ◽  
Flora I. Matheson
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Problem Gambling ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Legal Substances

Problem gambling, substance use disorders, and their cooccurrence are serious public health concerns. We conducted a comprehensive review of the literature to understand the present state of the evidence on these coaddictions. Our main focus was illicit drug use rather than misuse of legal substances. The review covers issues related to gambling as a hidden problem in the illicit drug use community; prevalence, problem gambling, and substance use disorders as kindred afflictions; problem gambling as an addiction similar to illicit drug use; risk factors and problems associated with comorbidity, and gender issues. We end with some suggestions for future research.

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