Document 0856
 DOCN  M9540856
 TI    Correlates of cocaine/crack use among inner-city incarcerated
       adolescents.
 DT    9504
 AU    Kang SY; Magura S; Shapiro JL; National Development and Research
       Institutes, Inc., New York, New; York 10013.
 SO    Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 1994 Nov;20(4):413-29. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/95133569
 AB    Inner-city male adolescents in jail in New York City (N = 427) were
       interviewed to examine correlates of cocaine or crack use. Twenty-three
       percent had used cocaine or crack in the month before arrest and 32%
       reported lifetime use. Substantial rates of robbery, murder, other
       violent crime, weapons possession, and drug dealing were found. However,
       type of crime, including violent crime, was not related either to
       cocaine/crack use or to drug dealing. Current cocaine/crack users were
       more likely to use alcohol, marijuana, and intranasal heroin; to have
       multiple previous arrests; to be out of school; to be psychologically
       distressed; to have been sexually molested as a child; to have substance
       abusing parents; and to have cocaine/crack-using friends. They were also
       more likely to have frequent sex with girls, to be gay or bisexual, and
       to engage in anal intercourse. The findings should be considered in
       developing more effective drug abuse prevention and treatment
       interventions, and HIV prevention education, for incarcerated at-risk
       adolescents.
 DE    Adolescence  *Cocaine  *Crack Cocaine  Cross-Sectional Studies  Health
       Education  Human  HIV Infections/PREVENTION & CONTROL/TRANSMISSION
       Incidence  Juvenile Delinquency/LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD/PSYCHOLOGY/
       REHABILITATION/*STATISTICS & NUMER DATA  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
       Male  New York City  Peer Group  Prisoners/PSYCHOLOGY/*STATISTICS &
       NUMER DATA  Sex Behavior  Substance
       Dependence/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY/REHABILITATION  Support, U.S. Gov't,
       P.H.S.  Urban Population/*STATISTICS & NUMER DATA  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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