Early adolescent antecedents of narcotic abuse.
A retrospective study of the sociocultural and behavioral characteristics of 200 persons under treatment for narcotic addiction was done and the results compared with those of 200 matched nonaddict peers. Twenty-eight of the original 104 items tested were found to discriminate between the two samples at the 5% level of significance. A factor analysis of these items indicated that a general delinquency behavior factor and three family background factors accounted for most of the variance in the data.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009790:Occupations; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000235:genetics