A Comparison of Drug Involvement between Runaways and School Youths
| Autor: | Dean G. Rojek, Stuart W. Fors |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) Adolescent Substance-Related Disorders Psychology Adolescent Medicine (miscellaneous) Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Developmental psychology Runaway Behavior mental disorders Injury prevention medicine Humans Students Psychiatry Illicit Drugs Data Collection Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics General Medicine medicine.disease Substance abuse Psychiatry and Mental health Ill-Housed Persons School environment Psychology Fugue |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Drug Education. 21:13-25 |
| ISSN: | 1541-4159 0047-2379 |
| DOI: | 10.2190/ljwu-fxtm-texg-wk4g |
| Popis: | Problems related to homeless/runaway youths have received increased attention in recent years. Homeless/runaway youths manifest many problems in addition to being absent from home and without supervision of a parent or guardian. The purpose of the study was to determine drug use and abuse patterns of homeless/runaway youths and to compare those patterns, along with attitudes toward selected illicit behaviors, with similar data collected from adolescents in school. Data were collected from persons ( n = 253) in homeless/runaway shelters in the southeast United States. Comparisons made with data from other studies of runaways and of youths in school indicate that drug use and abuse is two-three times more prevalent for runaways than with the school youths. Runaways' attitudes toward selected illicit behaviors are more tolerant than those of school youths. Intervention programs for runaway/homeless youths should reflect an understanding of the complexity of the psycho-social and behavioral history of the clients which is much different than that of those who are in school. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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