The Education-Drug Use Connection

      How Successes & Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, & Delinquency

      Preface
      Guidelines for Using this Book
      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
      Substance Use, Ages 14 to 40, Linked to Educational Success
      Studying Complex Causal Relationships in Natural Settings
      What Is the "Big Picture" Thus Far?
      Overview of Chapters

      Chapter 2. Literature Review: Conceptual and Empirical Overview of Issues
      Stability of Educational Achievement
      Educational Successes and Failures Are Connected to Substance Use
      Other Illicit Drugs and Multiple Substance Use
      Delinquency and Other Problem Behaviors
      Exogenous Variable Explanations
      Long-Term Relations Between Educational Failure and Substance Use
      Policy and Intervention Implications

      Chapter 3. Survey Methods and Analysis Strategies
      A Brief History of the Monitoring the Future Adolescent Panel
      Sample Characteristics and Representativeness
      Analysis Methods and Rationale
      Separate reporting for different forms of substance use
      A focus on consistent findings, well-documented

      Chapter 4. Educational Success and Failure: Causes and Correlates
      Plan for This Chapter
      Academic Attainment at Age 22: A Snapshot of a Moving Target
      Major Correlates/Predictors of Academic Attainment
      Additional Correlates/Predictors of Academic Attainment
      A Structural Equation Model of Academic Attainment
      Structural Model Findings: Background (Exogenous) Factors
      Structural Model Findings: High School (Endogenous) Factors
      Summary and Conclusions

      Chapter 5. Delinquency and Other Problem Behaviors Linked With Educational Success and Failure
      Plan for This Chapter
      Delinquency in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
      Major Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Delinquency
      Additional Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Delinquency
      Adding Delinquency to the Structural Equation Model of Academic Attainment
      Summary and Conclusions Concerning Delinquency
      Expanding the Structural Equation Model to Include Substance Use

      Chapter 6. How Educational Success and Failure are Linked With Smoking in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
      Plan for This Chapter
      Adolescent Smoking Rates in Recent Decades
      Major Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Smoking
      Additional Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Smoking
      A Structural Equation Model Including Academic Attainment and Smoking
      Further Analysis Including Friends' Smoking
      Summary and Conclusions

      Chapter 7. How Marijuana Use is Linked With Educational Success and Failure
      Plan for This Chapter
      Marijuana Use in Recent Decades
      Major Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Marijuana Use
      Additional Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Marijuana Use
      Structural Equation Model: Academic Attainment and Marijuana Use
      Summary and Conclusions

      Chapter 8. How Cocaine Use is Linked With Educational Success and Failure
      Plan for This Chapter
      Cocaine Use in Recent Decades
      Major Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Cocaine Use
      Additional Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Cocaine Use
      Structural Equation Model: Academic Attainment and Cocaine Use
      Summary and Conclusions

      Chapter 9. How Alcohol Use is Linked With Educational Success and Failure
      Plan for This Chapter
      Alcohol Use in Recent Decades
      Major Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Alcohol Use
      Additional Correlates/Predictors of Adolescent Alcohol Use
      The pattern of weaker correlations with increasing age
      Structural Equation Model: Academic Attainment and Alcohol Use
      Summary and Conclusions

      Chapter 10. Summary, Conclusions, and Implications
      Three Goals of This Book
      Summary of Findings: What We Think We Have Learned
      Conclusions and Implications

      Appendix
      N--or, what's in a number? The quest for practical and realistic values of N to use in estimating sample precision
      Sampling and Survey Procedures
      Structural equation model technical decisions and rationale

      Appendix tables and figures

      References


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