Stages and pathways of drug involvement : examining the gateway hypothesis / edited by Denise B. Kandel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Examining the gateway hypothesis: stages and pathways of drug involvement / Denise B. Kandel -- Drug sequences, age of onset, and use trajectories as predictors of drug abuse/dependence in young adulthood / Erich Labouvie and Helene R. White -- Substance use norms and transitions in substance use: implications for the gateway hypothesis / J. David Hawkins, Karl G. Hill, Jie Guo, and Sara R. Battin-Pearson -- Stages of drug involvement in the U.S. population / Denise B. Kandel and Kazuo Yamaguchi -- Substance use progression and hard drug use in inner-city New York / Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson -- Preventing the onset and developmental progression of adolescent drug use: implications for the gateway hypothesis / Gilbert J. Botvin, Lawrence M. Scheier, and Kenneth W. Griffin -- The gateway theory applied to prevention / Mary Ann Pentz and Chaoyang Li -- Intervention effects on adolescent drug use and critical influences on the development of problem behavior / Anthony Biglan and Keith Smolkowski -- Log linear sequence analyses: gender and racial/ethnic differences in drug use progression / Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise B. Kandel -- Cigarette use and drug use progression: growth trajectory and lagged effect hypotheses / Peter M. Bentler, Michael D. Newcomb, and Marc A. Zimmerman -- Using latent transition analysis to examine the gateway hypothesis / Linda M. Collins -- Stages of drug use progression: a comparison of methods, concepts, and operationalizations / Kazuo Yamaguchi -- The value of animal models to examine the gateway hypothesis / Neil E. Grunberg and Martha M. Faraday -- Sensitization as a process underlying the progression of drug use via gateway drugs / Susan Schenk -- Neurobiology of drug addiction / George F. Koob -- The gateway hypothesis revisited / Denise B. Kandel and Richard Jessor.

"This book represents the first systematic discussion of the Gateway Hypothesis, a developmental hypothesis formulated to model how adolescents initiate and progress in the use of various drugs. In the United States, this progression proceeds from the use of tobacco or alcohol to the use of marijuana and other illicit drugs. This volume presents a critical overview of what is currently known about the Gateway Hypothesis. The authors of the chapters explore the hypothesis from various perspectives ranging from developmental social psychology to prevention and intervention science, animal models, neurobiology, and analytical methodology. This book is original and unique in its purview, covering a broad view of the Gateway Hypothesis. The juxtaposition of epidemiological, intervention, animal, and neurobiological studies represents a new stage in the evolution of drug research, in which epidemiology and biology inform one another in the understanding of drug abuse."--Publisher's description

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