Stages and pathways of drug involvement : examining the gateway hypothesis / edited by Denise B. Kandel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kandel, Denise B. (Denise Bystryn), 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse.

Substance abuse.

Substance-Related Disorders.

Adolescent.

Medical Subjects:

Substance-Related Disorders.

Adolescent.

Physical Description:

xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book represents a systematic and broadly based discussion and evaluation of the Gateway Hypothesis.

Contents:

Examining the gateway hypothesis: stages and pathways of drug involvement / Denise B. Kandel

Drug sequences, age of onset, and use trajectories as predictors of drug abuse/dependence in young adulthood / Erich Labouvie and Helene R. White

Substance use norms and transitions in substance use: implications for the gateway hypothesis / J. David Hawkins, Karl G. Hill, Jie Guo, and Sara R. Battin-Pearson

Stages of drug involvement in the U.S. population / Denise B. Kandel and Kazuo Yamaguchi

Substance use progression and hard drug use in inner-city New York / Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson

Preventing the onset and developmental progression of adolescent drug use: implications for the gateway hypothesis / Gilbert J. Botvin, Lawrence M. Scheier, and Kenneth W. Griffin

The gateway theory applied to prevention / Mary Ann Pentz and Chaoyang Li

Intervention effects on adolescent drug use and critical influences on the development of problem behavior / Anthony Biglan and Keith Smolkowski

Log linear sequence analyses: gender and racial/ethnic differences in drug use progression / Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise B. Kandel

Cigarette use and drug use progression: growth trajectory and lagged effect hypotheses / Peter M. Bentler, Michael D. Newcomb, and Marc A. Zimmerman

Using latent transition analysis to examine the gateway hypothesis / Linda M. Collins

Stages of drug use progression: a comparison of methods, concepts, and operationalizations / Kazuo Yamaguchi

The value of animal models to examine the gateway hypothesis / Neil E. Grunberg and Martha M. Faraday

Sensitization as a process underlying the progression of drug use via gateway drugs / Susan Schenk

Neurobiology of drug addiction / George F. Koob

The gateway hypothesis revisited / Denise B. Kandel and Richard Jessor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521783496

0521789699

OCLC:

45750340