Life-style and drug involvement among youths in an inner city junior high school.
Data gathered in a winter 1976 survey of youths attending a New York City junior high school were analyzed to learn how features of their life-styles related to their involvement with drugs. The results indicate that the youths' substance use is an environmentally related phenomenon. The factors of peer-held esteem of drug using, gang involved persons, friends' use of alcohol and marijuana, and participation in spare-time activities of a drug/street culture nature were found to provide important insights into the youths' drug taking.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D010379:Peer Group; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012574:Schools; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D014505:Urban Population