Recent cannabis use among adolescent and young adult immigrants in the Netherlands – The roles of acculturation strategy and linguistic acculturation

A social network analysis of substance use among immigrant adolescents in six European cities

“…7 studies suggested that adolescents with a migration background had a substance use pattern which was vulnerable to their peers' substance use (Delforterie et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2002;Walsh et al, 2014). Those studies, however, did not use a social network design, and thus had an indirect appraisal of peers'substance use; those studies, moreover, had a more limited range: they were limited to one migrant or ethnic group, to a national or regional context, and generally analysed only one substance.…”

“…The findings of these studies, which have largely focused on the situation of Hispanics, and other migrant groups in the US, are inconclusive (Almeida et al, 2012;Castañeda et al, 2015;Georgiades et al, 2006;Gil et al, 2000;Kim et al, 2002;Lara et al, 2005;Lorenzo-Blanco et al, 2011;Prado et al, 2009;Yu et al, 2003). Some have suggested that adolescents with a migration background are more likely than their counterparts without a migration background to adopt risky health behaviours (such as drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes or marijuana) (Brindis et al, 1995;Delforterie et al, 2014;Prado et al, 2009;Walsh et al, 2014). However, other studies have found the opposite, reporting that adolescents with a migration background exhibit lower risk of substance use in general (Flavio Francisco Marsiglia et al, 2008;Molcho M et al, 2006), report lower rates of smoking (Georgiades et al, 2006), and are less likely to drink alcohol (Brandom, 2008) than non-immigrant adolescents.…”

Effect of immigration background and country-of-origin contextual factors on adolescent substance use in Spain

“…language (Almeida et al, 2012;Amundsen et al, 2005;Blake et al, 2001;Breslau et al, 2007;Delforterie et al, 2014;Gfroerer and Tan, 2003;Koya and Egede, 2007;Lara et al, 2005). Compared to foreign-born PRIBs (first-generation), risk generally increases in those host-country-born (second-generation), approaching that of autochthonous people (Acevedo-García et al, 2005;Almeida et al, 2012;Amundsen et al, 2005;Borges et al, 2011;Breslau et al, 2007;Hjern and Allebeck, 2004;Peña et al, 2008).…”

Is Web-Based Education Effective in Reducing Belief Toward Drug Abuse Among College Students?

“…Also, results showed that, although education intervention was generally effective to decrease the encouraging beliefs on drug abuse among college students, it did not show meaningful decrease of items such as excitement, relaxing, higher mental ability and forgetting the problems after fulfilling the intervention. Delforterie et al showed that the more positive the beliefs to drug abuse, the higher the possibility to use drugs (28). Also, Stephens et al suggested that beliefs could be related to the process of decision making skills against drug use (29).…”