Drug Use: Demography and Attitudes in a Junior and Senior High School Population

Abstract

This study was designed to provide descriptive information and correlational data related to drug use in junior and senior high school populations and to generate data for use in the planning and evaluation of a local drug education and prevention program. Further, it attempts to compare drug use among adolescents from military and civilian communities. The responses of 2,004 students to a multiple-choice drug attitude survey were analyzed. The myriad of adjustment problems associated with drug use suggests that treatment and research might concentrate efforts on individual psychological problems, rather than on drug use only and that further studies are indicated in the direction of causality of drug use and related psychological problems.