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PATTERN FEND PROGRESSION OF DRAG USE AMONG HYPERACTIVES AND CONTROLS: A PROSPECTIVE SHORT‐TERM LONGITUDINAL STUDY
Author(s) -
Hartsough C. S.,
Lambert N. M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1987.tb00222.x
Subject(s) - psychology , term (time) , developmental psychology , longitudinal study , drag , prospective cohort study , clinical psychology , medicine , mechanics , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics
The pattern and progression in drug use across a 1‐year interval was investigated for 54 hyperactives and 47 controls aged 13–18. Initiation and Use rates between groups at Time I and Time 2 also were studied Patterns of drug usage differed slightly between hyperactives and Controls, with the hyperactives showing greater involvement with cigarettes, As well, the data for progression in use across the I ‐year interval showed that hyperactives were by‐and‐large less predictable than controls in the progression of their drug use.Implications of these findings for future research arc discussed.