Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement: Examining the Gateway Hypothesis

ISBN-13: 9780521789691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 402 str.

Denise Bystryn Kandel

Opis

This book represents a systematic and broadly based discussion and evaluation of the Gateway Hypothesis, according to which young people who progress in the use of drugs follow a specific sequence from the use of tobacco or alcohol to the use of illicit drugs to the use of illicit drugs other than marijuana. This volume evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the hypothesis from multiple disciplinary perspectives representing sociology, psychology, epidemiology, statistics, animal behavior, molecular biology and prevention.

Recenzje

' … a book that should be read by anyone with a serious interest in drug epidemiology and its policy implications.' Addiction

Spis treści

Part I. Overview: 1. Examining the gateway hypothesis: stages and pathways of drug involvement Denise B. Kandel; Part II. Recent Substantive Findings: What Do We Know about Stages of Drug Use, Risks and Protective Factors?: 2. Drug sequences, age of onset and use trajectories as predictors of drug abuse/dependence in young adulthood Erich Labouvie and Helene R. White; 3. Substance use norms and transitions in substance use: implications for the gateway hypothesis David Hawkins, Karl G. Hill, Jie Guo and Sara R. Battin-Pearson; 4. Stages of drug involvement in the US population Denise B. Kandel and Kazuo Yamaguchi; 5. Substance use progression and hard drug use in inner city New York Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson; Part III. Impact of Prevention Interventions: a Test of the Progression Hypothesis: 6. Preventing the onset and developmental progression of adolescent drug use: implications for the gateway theory Gilbert Botvin, Kenneth Griffin and Lawrence Scheier; 7. The gateway theory applied to prevention Mary Ann Pentz and Chaoyang Li; 8. Intervention effects on adult drug use and critical influence on development of problem behavior Anthony Biglan and Keith Smolkowski; Part IV. Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods: 9. Log linear sequence analysis: gender and racial/ethnic differences in drug-use progression Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise B. Kandel; 10. Cigarette use and drug use progression: a growth trajectory and lagged effect hypothesis Peter M. Bentler, Michael D. Newcomb and Marc A. Zimmerman; 11. Using latent transition analysis to examine the gateway hypothesis Linda Collins; 12. Stages of drug progression: a comparison of methods, concepts and operationalizations Kazuo Yamaguchi; Part V. Animal Models and Biological Professes: Implications for Drug Progression: 13. The value of animal models to examine the gateway hypothesis Neil E. Grunberg and Martha M. Faraday; 14. Sensitization as a process underlying the progression of drug use via gateway drugs Susan Schenk; 15. The neurobiology of drug addiction George Koob; Part VI. Conclusion: 16. The gateway hypothesis revisited Denise B. Kandel and Richard Jessor.