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Prevention Bibliography 1992-1993: An Annotated Guide
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ABSTRACT
This document is the third in a series of annual
guides to the literature on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use
designed to assist
among American youth and its prevention. It is
readers in finding the latest information about this social problem
and the most effective strategies for eliminating it. This
bibliography consists of an indexed collection of 253 references,
with abstracts, to literature on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use
be done to
among school-aged youth in the United States, and what can
prevent or reduce use. It indexes literature identified and received
between June 1992 and June 1993. The main focus is on
research--specifically, epidemiological surveys, investigations of
risk factors, and prevention and intervention program evaluations.
General discussions, literature reviews, and program descriptions
have been included if they were deemed relevant to understanding the
nature of the problem and to developing programs to address it. The
scarcity of strong
scope of the review is national; because of the
longitudinal studies, one Canadian longitudinal study in a large
sample population has been included. The bibliography suggests that
increasing attention is being paid to the assessment of alcohol and
other drug use and the evaluation of prevention among subpopulations,
including ethnic and racial minority groups. Documents are listed
alphabetically by author. Indexes include a topic index with entries
for subjects, specific drugs, and specific populations covered; and a
separate document type index.
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PREVENTION BIBLIOGRAPHY
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PREVENTION BIBLIOGRAPHY
1992-1993
An Annotated Guide to Information on Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Other Drug Use Among Youth
Robert G. Sieber
Gregory Austin
Southwest Regional Laboratory
Western Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities
August 1993
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DIRECTOR'S NOTE
This is the third in a series of annual guides to the literature on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use
among American youth and its prevention. It is designed to assist in finding the latest information
about this pressing social problem and the most effective strategies for eliminating it, as part of the
ongoing efforts of the Western Regional Center to promote "knowledge transfer" of research
findings to prevention practitioners and the public. The literature on alcohol, tobacco, and other
drug abuse is extensive and has been rapidly expanding. Furthermore, because alcohol, tobacco,
and other drug research touches upon so many aspects of life and involves so many different
interests and research disciplines, information about it is published in a wide variety of scholarly
and popular journals. This situation makes it extremely difficult for people other than professional
researchers (and even for many researchers) to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field,
a problem aggravated by the communication gap between prevention practitioners researchers.
This annual review will help alleviate these information problems by helping all concerned stay
abreast of new developments in etiological research, program evaluations, and promising
prevention and intervention strategies.
Several people's assistance and cooperation made this guide possible. Special gratitude is due to
Kelly Andersen and Nicole Vanderhorst at the Southwest Regional Laboratory, Kathy Laws of
the Western Regional Center at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, and Gail Weinberg
at the Drug Information Center.
Judith A. Johnson, Director
Western Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities
CONTENTS
Introduction
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Bibliography
Document Type Index
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Topic Index
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INTRODUCTION
This bibliography consists of an indexed collection of 253 references, with abstracts, to literature
in the United States, and what
on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among school-age youth
by the author
can be done to prevent or reduce use. It indexes literature identified and received
between June 1992 and June 1993. The main focus is on researchspecifically, epidemiological
evaluations.
surveys, investigations of risk factors, and prevention and intervention program
General discussions, literature reviews, and program descriptions have been included if they were
deemed relevant to understanding the nature of the problem and to developing programs to address
it. The scope of this review is national, but emphasis has been given to research dealing with the
Western Regional Center's service area. Because of the scarcity of strong longitudinal studies, one
Canadian longitudinal study in a large sample population has been included.
Much new literature this year remains critical of research being done in the field and of trends in
prevention programs. It is, however, evident that research and knowledge on promising strategies
and approaches is expanding. As has been tille with previous years' Prevention Bibliographies,
documents summarized here support previous conclusions that the new generation of more
comprehensive psychosocial approaches are more effective than the older, single-strategy
approaches (e.g., didactic, affective, alternative). However, it is also evident that much remains to
be done and that important questions remain.
The current bibliography also suggests that increasing attention is being paid to the assessment of
alcohol and other drug use and the evaluation of prevendon among subpopulations, including
ethnic and racial minority groups. While many studies continue to be performed in so-called
"normal" or "general" samples of suburban White middle-class youth, the current Prevention
Bibliography includes many more studies in ethnic minority population samples than had been
found in previous years.
The bibliography lists documents, with their abstracts, alphabetically by author (with references
according to APA style). The indices follow: a topic index with entries for subjects, specific
drugs, and specific populations covered, and a separate document type index (Survey,
Index terms which designate
Longitudinal survey, Discussion, Program evaluation, etc.).
population types (e.g., high school students, dropouts, Native Americans), and geographic areas
(state names and some regional terms) refer to research or other literature which specifically
discusses those populations. The topic index was developed using a revised version of the
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Prevention Bibliography, 1992-1993
Both indices list
Abstracts.1
thesaurus originally created for Substance Abuse Index and
document numbers rather than page numbers.
implications for
Author abstracts tend to be limited to a summary of the findings saying little about
abstracts, these abstracts
practice or further research. While this guide draws on existing author
readers, especially in regard to implications for
were revised and expanded to better inform our
for this
further prevention research and practice. Many new abstracts were written specifically
annotated bibliography.
through the major
In developing this guide, an extensive literature search was conducted
produced by the
computerized databases which contain drug literature, particularly ETOH,
produced by the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and DRUGINFO,
extremely
University of Minnesota's Drug Information Center. The ERIC database was also
searches
valuable. The body of research identified in this manner was expanded by manual
bibliographiesthis was very
through books, publishers' lists, and printed current awareness
also benefitted from an
important given the time-lag in updating the databases. This bibliography
by which they provided the author copies of
arrangement with the Drug Information Center,
through the
relevant new articles as they received them for database entry. The sources available
valuable. The
National Clearinghouse for Drug and Alcohol Information were particularly
database at the
bibliography was compiled and indexed through an in-house bibliographic
Southwest Regional Laboratory.
Southwest Regional Laboratory
Los Alamitos, California
I Austin, Gregory, Executive Editor. Substance Abuse Index and Abstracts. Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco
Research, 1986-1987. New York: Scientific DataLink, 1989. 5 vols.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aboud, M. J. (Ed.). (1992, September). Prevention abstracts: Current research on
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prevention issues. Louisville, KY: Southeast Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and
Communities.
Selected research on adolescent alcohol and other drug research is abstracted in detail.
Aboud, M. J., Buford, B., Gossman, B., Morris, L., & White, N. (Eds.). (1992,
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March). Prevention abstracts: Current research on prevention issues. Louisville, KY:
Southeast Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities.
Selected research on adolescent alcohol and other drug research is abstracted in detail.
Adams, C. L. (1992). Substance use of Massachusetts high school student
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athletes. Ed.D. dissertation. Boston University, Boston, MA). Dissertation Abstracts
International 53(4): 2080-B.
in recent
The use of drugs and alcohol is prevalent in our society. One population that has received much attention
athletic superstars has been well documented in the
years is athletes. The social and ergogenic use of chemicals by
media. Formal investigations which provide understanding of this phenomenon are scarce. This study sought to
and
examine the substance use behaviors of high school student-athletes in Massachusetts with both quantitative
geographically
qualitative data. In the quantitative study, 1,365 male and female students from nine high schools
Questionnaire.
distributed throughout the state of Massachusetts completed a modified version of the Student-Athlete
specified sports in
The sample comprised of students from 9th to 12th pade who participated in at least one of 10
from each of
the high school. The qualitative study utilized interviews of 18 student-athletes, a male and a female
interview
the nine high schools. Juniors were randomly selected from a pool of respondents interested in the
marijuana/hashish,
component of the project. Major findings indicated: (a) Decreases in the use of alcohol,
cocaine/crack, psychedelics, and cigarettes from 1987 to 1991; (b) The use of smokeless tobacco increased from
1987 to 1991 from 8% to 13%; (c) A higher percentage of females were using alcohol and smoking cigarettes than
alcohol
males; (d) Anabolic steroid and anti-inflammatory drug use increased from 1987 to 1991; (e) Drug and
experimentation predominantly occurred before high school; (f) Peer influence was cited for the initiation of use;
Students were
(g) The majority of students reporting use of anabolic steroids cited the source as a "coach"; (h)
limited;
familiar with drug and alcohol education in their schools, however, their specific substance knowledge was
enforcement of
(i) Student-athletes supported mandatory/random drug testing and would like to see stricter
violations. Implications of the results for theory, research and practice are discussed.
Archambault, D. (1992). Adolescence: A physiological, cultural, and psychological
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Adolescent Substance
no man's land. In G. W. Lawson, & A. W. Lawson (Eds.),
Abuse: Etiology, Treatment, and Prevention (pp. 223-245). Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen
Publishers.
adolescents can be
A model of adolescent drug abuse is discussed. It is noted that no single reason for drug use by
described. Rather, drug use results from a complex interaction of genetics, behavior patterns, motives, and social and
alcoholic
psychological determinants. Heredity and the learning that takes place in the environment created by
of the risk children of alcoholics
parents, along with sociological and psychological factors, may account for much
experience. In treatment of youth, it should be recognized that some behaviors may go away without treatment. It
is therefore essential to treat both the individual and the behavior. A holistic approach to treatment addressing
needed. It is
general deviance as well as attempting to instill a sense of personal adequacy and accomplishment is
therapy might be tbe
suggested that because family issues are so interwoven in ail areas of our lives that family
the link between substance use and
most appropriate therapy modality. Prevention strategies raust work to break
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mood changes, unpleasam feelings and feeling better. Efforts must be made to make adolescents feel better through
improved family dynamics and mrsonal achievement.
Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. (1993). How part-time work intensity relates to
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drug use, problem behavior, time use, and satisfaction among high school
seniors: Are these consequences or merely correlates? Developmental
Psychology, 29(2), 220-235.
411
Data from the Monitoring the Future Project, with nationally representative samples of high school seniors, totaling
over 70,000 respondents, from the classes of 1985-1989, examined the relation between work intensity (hours
worked per week) and indicators of psychosocial functioning and adjustment Consistent with previous research,
bivariate correlations were positive between work intensity and problem behaviors; these associations were
diminished (but not eliminated) once background and educational success indicators were controlled, thus suggesting
that selection factors contribute to the correlations. A strong linear association was found between hours of work per
week and half-pack per day smoking: at each increment of hours worked, there was a corresponding increment in
percentage of half-pack smokers. Those without jobs had lower than average prevalence of smoking, although those
working 5 hours or less had lower smoking prevalence than those not working at all. Both current alcohol use and
heavy alcohol use (5 or more drinks at least once in the past two weeks) was also positively related to number of
hours worked, but the lowest alcohol prevalence was for those without jobs. Marijuana and cocaine use in the
previous month were also positively related to hours worked, although the relation was less linear and not as strong
as for alcohol and cigarettes. Educationally successful students at each level of work intensity had lower prevalence
of use of each of these four substances. Significant gender differences were also found: although females' prevalence
rates were generally lower than males'except that for cigarettesthe shape of the curves varied. Work intensity
appeared to reduce the likelihood of getting sufficient sleep, eating breakfast, exercising and having a satisfactory
amornt of leisure time. Conceptual and policy implications are discussed, including the possibility that long hours
of part-time work may be both a symptom and a facilitator of psychosocial difficulties.
Bailey, S. L. (1992). Adolescents' multisubstance use patterns: The role of heavy
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alcohol and cigarette use. American Journal of Public Health, 82(9), 1220-1224.
Knowledge about the roles that heavy alcohol and cigarette use play in patterns of concurrent substance use among
adolescents is lacking despite studies showing that adolescent substance users are typically multisubstance users and
that alcohol and cigarettes are sommonly used heavily by those who use illicit substances. The roles of increasing
use and heavy rust-time use of alcohol and cigarettes in multisubstance use patterns were examined in a cohort of
4,192 secondary students who were surveyed three times over a 4-year period. When subsequent use patterns were
compared for students who increased their levels of alcohol or cigarette use and those who initiated use for the first
time but at heavy frequencies, analyses indicated that the former group was more likely to initiate the subsequent use
of other substances and to maintain and increase use already initiated. These results suggest that adolescents are
likely to have been involved in a history of licit substance use characterized by increasing levels of use before
progressing to and maintaining the use of other substances. Increasing frequencies of alcohol and cigarette use,
therefore, may be markers for more serious patterns of substance use.
Bailey, S. L., Flewelling, R. L., & Rachal, J. V. (1992). The characterization of
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inconsistencies in self-reports of alcohol and marijuana use in a longitudinal
study of adolescents. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 53, 636-647.
The reliability of self-reported meuures remains an important issue for research on adolescent alcohol and ding use.
This study explores the consistency of self-reports of frequency of use and age of first use of alcohol and marijuana in
a sample of 5,770 secondary school students in a southeastern U.S. county. Two waves of data were collected
between 1985 and 1988 using atate-of-the-art data collection procedures and self-administered instruments.
Consistency of reports was examined by comparing reports at T1 and T2, approximately 1 year apart. Results
showed that when consistent nonusers were dropped from the analysis, consistency rams of lifetime frequency of use
dropped from 82.7% to 74.7% for alcohol and from, 95.6% to 83.2% for marijuana. Reports were more consistent
for lifetime marijuana use than for alcohol use, but these results must be interpreted with caution given differences in
the measures for the two substances. Reliability for reported age of rust use was very low for both substances.
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