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A University System Drug Profile
- Source :
- International Journal of the Addictions. 9:569-583
- Publication Year :
- 1974
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1974.
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Abstract
- This study was undertaken to determine current patterns of drug usage and related behavior of college, university, and junior college students in the University System of Georgia. A maximum saturation survey technique, utilizing a 112-item questionnaire as the primary research tool, resulted in a usable sample of 24,609 student respondents. The focus of attention was on student usage patterns of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, LSD, glue, narcotics, stimulants, hallucinogens and depressants. An attempt is made to determine patterns of drug use (estimates of current use, history of use, and plans for future use); attitudes, beliefs, and drug use (attitudes toward drug use, and legal controls, and informed sources about drugs); and demographic variables and drug use (sex, age, religion, marital status, spending money, race, parental drug use and attitudes, student living group, and class standing). If one were inclined to construct a profile of a typical university system drug user from the relative frequencies...
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Narcotics
Drug
Georgia
Adolescent
Universities
Substance-Related Disorders
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Drug profile
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Sample (statistics)
Drug user
Sex Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Ethnicity
Humans
Students
Cannabis
Demography
media_common
Smoking
Age Factors
Religion
Alcoholism
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Tranquilizing Agents
Attitude
Hallucinogens
Educational Status
Marital status
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Female
Construct (philosophy)
Psychology
University system
Clinical psychology
Primary research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0020773X
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of the Addictions
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....832fcb4ed9a2b3f84bf28d7f6c26b91e