Varieties of Substance use and Visible Drug Problems: Individual and Neighborhood Factors
| Autor: | Julie Ford, Andrew A. Beveridge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Demand reduction business.industry 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Law enforcement 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health 0506 political science 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Intervention (counseling) Environmental health Injury prevention 050602 political science & public administration Medicine 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Drug Issues. 36:377-392 |
| ISSN: | 1945-1369 0022-0426 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002204260603600207 |
| Popis: | This paper examines whether the individual and neighborhood factors associated with visible drug problems are also related to drug use. It also looks at how the relationship between individual and neighborhood characteristics and substance use may vary depending upon type of substance under consideration (e.g., marijuana versus cocaine). Using data from the evaluation of the “Fighting Back” national demonstration program, our findings indicate that while neighborhood disadvantage, minority concentration, and density are strongly related to increased levels of visible drug problems, these characteristics are not significantly related to drug use. One implication of these findings is that law enforcement tactics aimed at reducing drug-related “incivilities” in a neighborhood are unlikely to have a substantial impact on residents' rates of drug use. The results also suggest that intervention programs targeting demand reduction among residents in a given neighborhood are likely to have little impact on visible drug problems in that area. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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