Predicting Adolescent Drug Abuse: A Review of Issues, Methods and Correlates. Research Issues 11.

Presented are 18 papers on predicting adolescent drug abuse. The papers have the following titles: "Current Issues in the Epidemiology of Drug Abuse as Related to Psychosocial Studies of Adolescent Drug Use"; "The Quest for Interpersonal Predictors of Marihuana Abuse in Adolescents"; "Assessing the Interpersonal Determinants of Adolescent Drug Use"; "Speculations on Possible Changes in Youthful Lifestyle between the 1960's and 1970's"; "A Psychological Approach toward the Meanings of Drug Use"; "An Approach to the Classification of the Lifestyles of Narcotic Abusers"; "Individualized Prediction as a Strategy for Discovering Demographic and Interpersonal/Psychological Correlates of Drug Resistance and Abuse"; "A Social Psychological Approach to Substance Abuse Construct Validity--Prediction of Adolescent Drug Use from Independent Data Sources"; "Computer Interview Questionnaires for Drug Use/Abuse"; "Personality Factors Related to Drug and Alcohol Use"; "Self-esteem as a Predictor of Adolescent Drug Abuse"; "Ego Mechanisms and Marihuana Usage"; "Chemical Substance Abuse and Perceived Locus of Control"; "Behavioral and Demographic Correlates of Drug Use among Students in Grades 7-12"; "Teenage Drug Use--A Search for Causes and Consequences"; "Predicting Time of Onset of Marihuana Use--A Developmental Study of High School Youth"; "Drug Use Research Items Pertaining to Personality and Interpersonal Relations--A Working Paper for Research Investigators"; and "Some Comments on the Relationship of Selected Criteria Variables to Adolescent Illicit Drug Use". (DB)