title: Community Influence on Youth's Use of Inhalants and Other Legal Products to Get High in Rural Alaska.
abstract: This study examines the use of inhalants and other harmful legal products (HLPs) to get high among pre-adolescents in frontier Alaska communities. Community factors that may influence use of HLPs are highlighted. This study uses secondary data from two NIH studies in 19 Alaska communities. A hierarchal generalized linear modeling technique was used to model community level effects on HLP use. The results show that lifetime use was reported by 18% of the pre-adolescents. Pre-adolescents in "dry" communities (with laws restricting alcohol use) had much higher lifetime and past 30-day HLP use. The results suggest that additional study of the relationship between use of HLPs and local laws governing availability is warranted.
authors.affiliation: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation - Louisville Center, 1300 S. Fourth Street, Ste. 300, Louisville, KY 40208, (502) 238-7338, collins@pire.org.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage (Retired).
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Saylor
authors.affiliation: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation - Louisville Center.
authors.forename: Knowlton
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Johnson