Yamaguchi K, Kandel D B
Am J Public Health. 1984 Jul;74(7):668-72. doi: 10.2105/ajph.74.7.668.
Major pathways of progression among legal, illegal, and medically prescribed psychoactive drugs from adolescence to young adulthood are described. The data are based on a follow-up cohort of former adolescents representative of high school students in grades 10 and 11 in New York State who were reinterviewed nine years later at ages 24-25. Various models of progression are tested for their goodness of fit. The patterns formerly observed in adolescence involving progression from one class of legal drug (either alcohol or cigarettes) to marijuana to the use of other illicit drugs appear in the transitional period into young adult, with an additional stage, that of prescribed psychoactive drugs. Some differences appear between men and women, with cigarettes more important for women than for men in the total progression.
文中描述了合法、非法及医学处方类精神活性药物从青少年期到青年期的主要发展路径。数据基于一个对纽约州10至11年级高中生具有代表性的前青少年随访队列,这些学生在九年后,即24至25岁时接受了再次访谈。对各种发展模型进行了拟合优度测试。以前在青少年期观察到的从一类合法药物(酒精或香烟)发展到大麻再到使用其他非法药物的模式,在向青年期过渡阶段依然出现,且增加了一个阶段,即处方类精神活性药物阶段。男性和女性之间存在一些差异,在整个发展过程中,香烟对女性比对男性更为重要。