Buchanan Amy S, Latkin Carl A
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008 Aug 1;96(3):286-9. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.03.008. Epub 2008 May 2.
The present study examined social control processes in drug cessation among adults. Social control theory posits that the association between drug use and the drug use of a person's social network results from an individual seeking out similar peers. The data included 629 individuals who reported past-year heroin or cocaine use at baseline and had follow-up data in a community study in Baltimore, MD. Negative binomial regression modeling indicated that the reduction in social network drug use was significantly greater for quitters than those who did not quit. Compared to non-quitters at baseline, the incidence rate ratio (IRR) of the number of drug-using network members was 0.86 for quitters at baseline, 0.71 for non-quitters at follow-up, and 0.28 for quitters at follow-up (all p<0.05). These findings support social control theory in adult drug use cessation. Future research should extend the length of follow-up and assess bidirectional influences.
本研究调查了成年人戒毒过程中的社会控制过程。社会控制理论认为，个人吸毒与个人社交网络中的吸毒行为之间的关联源于个体寻找相似的同龄人。数据包括629名在基线时报告过去一年使用过海洛因或可卡因且在马里兰州巴尔的摩市的一项社区研究中有随访数据的个体。负二项回归模型表明，与未戒毒者相比，戒毒者社交网络中吸毒行为的减少幅度显著更大。与基线时的未戒毒者相比，基线时的戒毒者吸毒网络成员数量的发病率比（IRR）为0.86，随访时的未戒毒者为0.71，随访时的戒毒者为0.28（所有p<0.05）。这些发现支持了社会控制理论在成人戒毒中的作用。未来的研究应延长随访时间并评估双向影响。
