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Page, Randy M.; Cole, Galen E. – Adolescence, 1991
Administered Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test to subjects over age 18. Among late adolescents (aged 18 to 20), lonely females had highest mean scores, indicating higher degree of alcoholism risk than lonely males and nonlonely subjects. For males, loneliness appeared to increase alcoholism risk, not in late adolescence, but during early…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism

Allen, Ola; Page, Randy M. – Adolescence, 1994
Examined substance use among rural black and rural white students (n=1,915). Found that black males were significantly less likely than white males to drink alcohol; get drunk; smoke cigarettes; or use smokeless tobacco, hallucinogens, and sedatives. Black females were significantly less likely than white females to drink alcohol; get drunk; smoke…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Black Students, Drinking, Drug Use