Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Overview
- Part II Recent Substantive Findings: What Do We Know About Stages of Drug Use, Risks, and Protective Factors?
- Part III Impact of Prevention Interventions: A Test of the Progression Hypothesis
- Part IV Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods
- 9 Log Linear Sequence Analyses: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Drug Use Progression
- 10 Cigarette Use and Drug Use Progression: Growth Trajectory and Lagged Effect Hypotheses
- 11 Using Latent Transition Analysis to Examine the Gateway Hypothesis
- 12 Stages of Drug Use Progression: A Comparison of Methods, Concepts, and Operationalizations
- Part V Animal Models and Biological Processes: Implications for Drug Progression
- Part VI Conclusion
- Index
10 - Cigarette Use and Drug Use Progression: Growth Trajectory and Lagged Effect Hypotheses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Overview
- Part II Recent Substantive Findings: What Do We Know About Stages of Drug Use, Risks, and Protective Factors?
- Part III Impact of Prevention Interventions: A Test of the Progression Hypothesis
- Part IV Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods
- 9 Log Linear Sequence Analyses: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Drug Use Progression
- 10 Cigarette Use and Drug Use Progression: Growth Trajectory and Lagged Effect Hypotheses
- 11 Using Latent Transition Analysis to Examine the Gateway Hypothesis
- 12 Stages of Drug Use Progression: A Comparison of Methods, Concepts, and Operationalizations
- Part V Animal Models and Biological Processes: Implications for Drug Progression
- Part VI Conclusion
- Index
Summary
We propose a new way of thinking conceptually and methodologically about drug use sequences. In terms of biopsychosocial views on drug use, such as Noble's (1996) theory on genetic variations that imply a genetically based differential rewarding effect of alcohol and drug use on the dopamine system, the effect of initial drug use on later drug use can be conceptualized as a sensitizing effect that influences the subsequent growth in use of other substances. Extensive use of a Gateway drug may serve to determine a higher initial level of use of a consequent drug or a faster trend of growth in use of the consequent drug across time. Additionally, a greater rate of growth across time in extent of use of the Gateway drug may itself serve to determine a faster trend of growth in extent of use of the consequent drug. This growth trajectory hypothesis for progression of drug use can be tested with a variant of structural equation modeling known as growth curve modeling. The more traditional cross-lag autoregressive model can be used to study lagged effects of one substance use on another. We compare these two ways of looking at drug use involvement in a sample of 679 African American and White high school youths assessed at three time points. In addition, we cross-validate our results on a previously published data set.
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- Stages and Pathways of Drug InvolvementExamining the Gateway Hypothesis, pp. 223 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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