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Author Bachman, Jerald G

Title The Education-Drug Use Connection : How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (456 pages)
Summary Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. The book uses data from the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future project. It focuses on a large and nationally representative sample of 8th grade students in the United States who were initially surveyed in 1991-
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Form Electronic book
Author O'Malley, Patrick M
Schulenberg, John E
Johnston, Lloyd
Freedman-Doan, Peter
Messersmith, Emily E
ISBN 9781136677120
1136677127