Correlation between Drug Use by Teenagers and Drug Use by Older Family Members
- 31 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Vol. 13 (1-2), 95-108
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00952998709001502
Abstract
This study examines the relationship between drug use by teenagers and older family members living in the same household, using data from the National Survey on Drug Abuse. Drug use by teenagers was found to be correlated with drug use by fathers, mothers, and older siblings, in that teenagers were more likely to be drug users if the older adult was also a drug user. Correlations were significant across different drug types, but the most consistent relationship was between marijuana use by youth and marijuana use by the adult.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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