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What Are Youth Asking About Drugs? A Report of NIDA Drug Facts Chat Day

Published:2015-09 Issue:3-4 Volume:45 Page:195-210
ISSN:0047-2379
Container-title:Journal of Drug Education
language:en
Short-container-title:J Drug Educ

Author:

Morton Cory M.¹,Hoefinger Heidi²,Linn-Walton Rebecca³,Aikins Ross⁴,Falkin Gregory P.⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Social Work, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

2. School of Liberal Arts, Berkeley College, New York, NY, USA

3. The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services, New York, NY, USA

4. Higher Education Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

5. Public Health Solutions, New York, NY, USA

Abstract

The current study analyzes a sample of questions about drugs asked online by youth who participated in the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) “Drug Facts Chat Day.” The types of drugs youth asked about were coded into 17 substance categories, and the topics they raised were coded into seven thematic categories. The top five queried drugs were marijuana (16.4%), alcohol (8.5%), tobacco (6%), cocaine (5.7), and pharmaceutical drugs (4.5%). The effects of drug use, experience of being high, the addictiveness of drugs, pharmacology, and drug sales were among the more common types of questions to emerge but varied depending on the substance. These findings show the types of information young people are seeking about drugs and have clear implications to inform youth drug education programs.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,General Medicine,Health(social science),Medicine (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0047237915622084

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