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Changing Drug Use Patterns and Treatment Behavior

A Longitudinal Study of Urban Black Youth

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Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention

Part of the book series: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Reviews ((DAAR,volume 1))

Abstract

This chapter will report changing drug involvements and treatment needs in a community representative sample of nonHispanic urban Black Americans. The study group has been followed for 20 years to date. Indi-viduals in the study group were selected in the late 1960s because they were adolescents residing in the Central Harlem health district of New York City. The first section of the chapter includes a discussion of drug use patterns, focusing on changes that appeared as the sample moved from postadoles-cence (aged 18–23 yr) to young adulthood (ages 26–31). Discussion in the second section turns to drug treatment issues. Attention is directed there, specifically, to pathways into and outcomes of treatment for heroin abuse.

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Brunswick, A.F., Messeri, P.A., Aidala, A.A. (1990). Changing Drug Use Patterns and Treatment Behavior. In: Watson, R.R. (eds) Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention. Drug and Alcohol Abuse Reviews, vol 1. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0465-7_11

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