Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement : Examining the Gateway Hypothesis (Paperback)

Part I. Overview: 1. Examining the gateway hypothesis: stages and pathways of drug involvement Denise B. Kandel; Part II. Recent Substantive Findings: What Do We Know about Stages of Drug Use, Risks and Protective Factors?: 2. Drug sequences, age of onset and use trajectories as predictors of drug abuse/dependence in young adulthood Erich Labouvie and Helene R. White; 3. Substance use norms and transitions in substance use: implications for the gateway hypothesis David Hawkins, Karl G. Hill, Jie Guo and Sara R. Battin-Pearson; 4. Stages of drug involvement in the US population Denise B. Kandel and Kazuo Yamaguchi; 5. Substance use progression and hard drug use in inner city New York Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson; Part III. Impact of Prevention Interventions: a Test of the Progression Hypothesis: 6. Preventing the onset and developmental progression of adolescent drug use: implications for the gateway theory Gilbert Botvin, Kenneth Griffin and Lawrence Scheier; 7. The gateway theory applied to prevention Mary Ann Pentz and Chaoyang Li; 8. Intervention effects on adult drug use and critical influence on development of problem behavior Anthony Biglan and Keith Smolkowski; Part IV. Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods: 9. Log linear sequence analysis: gender and racial/ethnic differences in drug-use progression Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise B. Kandel; 10. Cigarette use and drug use progression: a growth trajectory and lagged effect hypothesis Peter M. Bentler, Michael D. Newcomb and Marc A. Zimmerman; 11. Using latent transition analysis to examine the gateway hypothesis Linda Collins; 12. Stages of drug progression: a comparison of methods, concepts and operationalizations Kazuo Yamaguchi; Part V. Animal Models and Biological Professes: Implications for Drug Progression: 13. The value of animal models to examine the gateway hypothesis Neil E. Grunberg and Martha M. Faraday; 14. Sensitization as a process underlying the progression of drug use via gateway drugs Susan Schenk; 15. The neurobiology of drug addiction George Koob; Part VI. Conclusion: 16. The gateway hypothesis revisited Denise B. Kandel and Richard Jessor.