Assertiveness and Patterns of Drug Use: A Pilot Study

Abstract

The phenomenon of peer-pressure and drug use suggests that assertive-training holds promise as a drug abuse prevention study. This ex post facto study investigated the relationship between assertiveness and patterns of drug use. It was found that exploratory use of marijuana and hashish was the norm among this sample of college students. Furthermore, current users and those who had never used such drugs were considerably less assertive than those who had experienced with these drugs but no longer did so.