Morton Cory M, Hoefinger Heidi, Linn-Walton Rebecca, Aikins Ross, Falkin Gregory P
Department of Social Work, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
School of Liberal Arts, Berkeley College, New York, NY, USA.
J Drug Educ. 2015;45(3-4):195-210. doi: 10.1177/0047237915622084. Epub 2016 Feb 9.
The current study analyzes a sample of questions about drugs asked online by youth who participated in the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) "Drug Facts Chat Day." The types of drugs youth asked about were coded into 17 substance categories, and the topics they raised were coded into seven thematic categories. The top five queried drugs were marijuana (16.4%), alcohol (8.5%), tobacco (6%), cocaine (5.7), and pharmaceutical drugs (4.5%). The effects of drug use, experience of being high, the addictiveness of drugs, pharmacology, and drug sales were among the more common types of questions to emerge but varied depending on the substance. These findings show the types of information young people are seeking about drugs and have clear implications to inform youth drug education programs.
当前的研究分析了参与美国国家药物滥用研究所（NIDA）“毒品事实聊天日”的青少年在网上提出的有关毒品问题的样本。青少年询问的毒品类型被编码为17种物质类别，他们提出的主题被编码为7个主题类别。被询问最多的五种毒品是大麻（16.4%）、酒精（8.5%）、烟草（6%）、可卡因（5.7%）和药品（4.5%）。药物使用的影响、兴奋体验、药物成瘾性、药理学和毒品销售是出现的较为常见的问题类型，但因物质不同而有所差异。这些发现揭示了年轻人正在寻求的有关毒品的信息类型，并对青少年毒品教育项目具有明确的启示意义。
