Alcohol and other drug use among adolescent detainees

Braithwaite, Ronald L.; Conerly, Rhonda C.; Robillard, Alyssa G.; Stephens, Torrance; Woodring, Tammy

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“…The number of youth starting to use marijuana at younger than 15 years old has grown in the last decade; this is significant because those adolescents who start using at 15 years or younger are 2.5 times more likely than those starting to use marijuana at 18 years or older to have symptoms of dependence in adulthood (Dennis et al, 2002). Marijuana use has increased despite its association with higher rates of mental disorders, health problems, and school problems among youth (Dennis et al, 2002 The risk of substance use disorders is also elevated among youth who commit crimes (McClelland, Elkington, Teplin, & Abram, 2004) and are detained (Braithwaite, Conerly, Robillard, Stephens, & Woodring, 2003). Many youth involved in the justice system have a substance use disorder ) and many more regularly use illicit substances, including high rates of marijuana use (95.7%; Lebeau-Craven et al, 2003).…”

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“…The risk of substance use disorders is also elevated among youth who commit crimes (McClelland, Elkington, Teplin, & Abram, 2004) and are detained (Braithwaite, Conerly, Robillard, Stephens, & Woodring, 2003). Many youth involved in the justice system have a substance use disorder ) and many more regularly use illicit substances, including high rates of marijuana use (95.7%; Lebeau-Craven et al, 2003).…”

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Validation of the Marijuana Effect Expectancy Questionnaire-Brief

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Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate a brief version of the Marijuana Effect Expectancy Questionnaire (MEEQ; Schafer & Brown, 1991). The original MEEQ was reduced to 6 items (MEEQ-B). Principal component analysis (PCA) was performed and two factors were identified (positive effects and negative effects) accounting for 52.3% of the variance. Internal consistencies (0.42 to 0.60) were slightly lower than those of the original MEEQ. The negative effect expectancy scale correlated with criterion variables that assess marijuana use (p ≤ .05). This measure is a helpful tool for clinicians to use when assessing youth expectancies. Replication across different samples of adjudicated youth is recommended. KeywordsAdolescent; incarcerated; marijuana effect expectancies More than half of high school seniors acknowledge using illicit substances, including marijuana, and approximately 25% admit to using drugs in the past 30 days (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2002). The number of youth starting to use marijuana at younger than 15 years old has grown in the last decade; this is significant because those adolescents who start using at 15 years or younger are 2.5 times more likely than those starting to use marijuana at 18 years or older to have symptoms of dependence in adulthood (Dennis et al., 2002). Marijuana use has increased despite its association with higher rates of mental disorders, health problems, and school problems among youth (Dennis et al., 2002 The risk of substance use disorders is also elevated among youth who commit crimes (McClelland, Elkington, Teplin, & Abram, 2004) and are detained (Braithwaite, Conerly, Robillard, Stephens, & Woodring, 2003). Many youth involved in the justice system have a substance use disorder ) and many more regularly use illicit substances, including high rates of marijuana use (95.7%; Lebeau-Craven et al., 2003). McClelland, Elkington et al. (2004) found that marijuana use disorder, alone and/or in addition to alcohol, was the most common substance use disorder among an adolescent detainee population.The subjective and behavioral effects of drugs are influenced by expectancies (Aarons, Brown, Stice, & Coe, 2001). Expectancy theory indicates that "through learning, the effects, consequences, and contexts of substance use act to motivate future substance use" (Brown, 1993, p. 56). There is considerable evidence that expectations for reinforcement from alcohol use are highly correlated with the commencement and continuation of drinking behavior (Brown, 1993;Katz, Fromme, & D'Amico, 2000). For example, adolescents who expect positive and arousing effects from alcohol use have been found to have earlier initiation of drinking behavior and drink more often and with less moderation than those youth who hold less evident expectancies (Aarons et al., 2001). Moreover, young adults are more likely to drink alcohol and use illicit drugs when they hold strong positive and weak negative expectancies for these behaviors (Aarons et al., 2001;Katz et al., 2000;Schafer...

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Validation of the Marijuana Effect Expectancy Questionnaire-Brief

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Barnett

et al. 2008

Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse

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“…Self-report measures may lead to response bias, and there may be a need to develop more effective, accurate and sensitive screening tools regarding suicide [65]. Although we did employ self-report measures on health status, we feel that our sample size was random and large enough to validate the findings presented herein as with other studies examine relationships with substance use and problem behaviors among adolescent offender populations [66][67][68]. Moreover, our results are only generalizable to white male adolescents who are institutionalized, a group that may be both at increased risk for interpersonal violence perpetration and more likely to reside in neighborhoods characterized by lower collective efficacy.…”

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The current study was designed to determine the extent to which self-reported alcohol use in a population of white male juvenile adolescent detainees in a southern state is associated with psychopathic violent problem behaviors. With this, the aim of this study is to examine associations, if any, between alcohol consumption and violent problem behavior outcomes among this population. Participants were 354 white male adolescent juvenile detainees extracted from an overall sample of 2260 juvenile offenders housed at selected Youth Development Campuses (YDCs) in the state of Georgia. Relationships between individual violent problem behavior variables and measures of alcohol use were examined using multiple linear regression models. Age first drinking alcohol significantly predicted and were associated with respondent's having previously threatening to beat someone up (β= -.227,p< 0.01), hitting a parent or guardian (β= -.205, p< 0.01), carrying a razor, knife or gun (β= -.248, p< 0.01), and the use of physical force (β= -.180, p< 0.01), all as indicated at the p< .001. The relationship between alcohol use and the occurrence of violent problem behaviors is clear yet nuanced and complex. Since the frequency of having had more than five drinks in same day was observed as a statistically significant predictor of all violent problem behaviors examined, with respect to prevention, evidence-based efforts should include public health approach to risk reduction, since high levels of alcohol use are predictive of the development of psychiatric disorders later in adulthood. There is little, if any, information on rates of violence and alcohol consumption in samples of white male juvenile offenders. Much of the, epidemiologic assessment of factors associated with substance use and violent problem behaviors have consistently focused on other adolescent population parameters, typically large diverse samples or urban and minority youth [33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. In addition, many examine specific types of violent behavior such as dating violence [37,40,41]. Another point of consideration is that most research that looks at white adolescent populations with respect to alcohol use and violent behavior often is comparative in nature to other ethnic groups [42][43][44][45][46][47]. Moreover, to our knowledge, no studies have examined the extent to which specific alcohol use factors may influence specific violent problem behaviors, especially in a sample of white male adolescent juvenile offenders. The vast majority of investigations have been based on small clinical or regional samples, which may not be representative of the general population of incarcerated juveniles, tend to target ethnic minority groups [48] or examine adolescent offender populations in aggregate [49,50]. They also suffer from small sample sizes, which limit considerations of other sociodemographic confounders (Table 1). Furthermore, most studies have examined association's one condition at a time instead of presenting a comprehensive profile on a rang...

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“…In a large descriptive study of incarcerated 11–18 year olds, 77.8% and 79.5% reported lifetime alcohol and marijuana use, respectively (Braithwaite, Conerly, Robillard, Stephens, & Woodring, 2003). Teplin and colleagues (2002) interviewed over 1,800 (response rate of 95.8%) 10–18 year old detainees in the Cook County Juvenile detention center.…”

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Do Bisexual Girls Report Higher Rates of Substance Use than Heterosexual Girls? A Failure to Replicate with Incarcerated and Detained Youth

Bernstein

Stein

2015

Journal of Bisexuality

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Prior research suggests that sexual minority females, particularly bisexuals, report greater rates of substance use than heterosexuals. However, to our knowledge, no study has compared alcohol/drug use between bisexual and heterosexual incarcerated or detained female youth. The current study pools data from three prior treatment studies with incarcerated or detained adolescent girls that self-identify as bisexual or heterosexual (N=86). Hierarchical regression models were conducted to determine whether 12-month prevalence of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, or other drug use differed between bisexual and heterosexual participants. In contrast to most prior work, no differences were observed. Findings are considered in light of the recruitment setting, which drew a sample with high levels of substance use prevalence.

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Alcohol and other drug use among adolescent detainees

Cited by 31 publications

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Validation of the Marijuana Effect Expectancy Questionnaire-Brief

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Do Bisexual Girls Report Higher Rates of Substance Use than Heterosexual Girls? A Failure to Replicate with Incarcerated and Detained Youth

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