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McCutcheon, Allan L.; Thomas, George – Journal of Drug Education, 1995
Previous studies of the drug-use patterns of institutionalized youth found that they followed the standard progression of drug use from marijuana to hard drugs. Utilizing a probabilistic assessment of models, this study supports a modified gateway sequences in which cocaine use appears as an intermediate step between marijuana use and use of other…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cocaine, Drug Abuse, Illegal Drug Use
Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2005
The first National Drug Control Strategy set ambitious two and five-year performance based goals: (1) to lower the rate of drug use by 10 percent over 2 years among both youth and adults; and (2) to lower the rate by 25 percent over 5 years. The chapters in this updated version are keyed to the strategies three priorities: (1) Stopping Use Before…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Correctional Institutions, Drug Use, Program Effectiveness