Adults' drug use: relationship to perceived drug use of parents, friends while growing up, and present friends.
Results from a random household survey of the Boston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area show a consistent and relatively strong association of adults' use of coffee, tobacco, alcohol, tranquilizers, and marijuana with their perceptions of present friends' use. Associations with parents' and past adolescent friends' use are much weaker. The results support efforts to explain illicit drug use with general theories of behavior acquisition and cast doubt on the utility of deviance theories.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001900:Boston; D002110:Caffeine; D002188:Cannabis; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents; D010379:Peer Group; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D012925:Social Conformity; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014149:Tranquilizing Agents
D014149:Tranquilizing Agents; D002110:Caffeine