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McKirnan, David J.; Johnson, Tina – 1985
Although adolescent alcohol and drug use is decreasing, many teenagers continue to use alcohol and drugs. Studies of adolescent alcohol use typically sample intact high school populations, excluding dropouts and adolescents alienated from straight high school populations. Alcohol and drug use and alcohol related attitudes were measured in 62…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Drinking, Dropout Attitudes
Truckenmiller, James L. – 1982
Recent national surveys have found marked increases in the use of illicit drugs and alcohol among adolescents. To investigate differential prediction of alcohol versus hard drug use amoung youths, 6% of the youths, aged 10-19, from a Pennsylvania county school system (N=1,689) were assessed on the HEW Community Youth Program Impact Scales. The 12…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Delinquency, Drug Abuse