Hendrickson James C, Gerstein Dean R
The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, Washington Office, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2005;40(9-10):1557-75. doi: 10.1081/JA-200066893.
Ecstasy (MDMA) use increased rapidly in the U.S. between about 1995 and 2001. Most research on the drug focused on its psychopharmacological and public health contexts. Previous research on drugs-crime linkages suggests that there may have been a concommitant rise in ecstasy-related crimes. We explore this dimension here using data from 7794 arrested men, age 16 to 25, in the 2001 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) sample and 9764 male respondents of similar age in the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Our results using a variety of bivariate and regression methods indicate that ecstasy use is less prevalent among young male arrestees than young men in general and that ecstasy use among arrestees is positively associated with various measures of drug market participation but negatively related to violent and property offenses. We recommend further investigation of ecstasy use in drug-oriented data sets and longitudinal studies to evaluate the link between ecstasy use and overall drug marketing.
在美国，摇头丸（MDMA）的使用在1995年至2001年期间迅速增加。大多数关于该药物的研究集中在其心理药理学和公共卫生背景方面。先前关于毒品与犯罪联系的研究表明，与摇头丸相关的犯罪可能也随之增加。我们在此利用2001年被捕者药物滥用监测（ADAM）样本中7794名年龄在16至25岁之间的被捕男性以及2001年全国药物滥用家庭调查（NHSDA）中9764名年龄相仿的男性受访者的数据来探究这一方面。我们使用各种双变量和回归方法得出的结果表明，年轻男性被捕者中摇头丸的使用比一般年轻男性中更为少见，并且被捕者中摇头丸的使用与毒品市场参与的各种指标呈正相关，但与暴力和财产犯罪呈负相关。我们建议在以毒品为导向的数据集中以及纵向研究中进一步调查摇头丸的使用情况，以评估摇头丸使用与整体毒品市场之间的联系。
