Suggests that the most promising route to effective strategies for the prevention of
adolescent alcohol and other drug problems is through a risk-focused approach. This …

We review recent research on the prevalence, causes, and effects of diagnostic comorbidity
among the most common groups of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders; anxiety …

OBJECTIVE: To present estimates of the lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV mental disorders
with and without severe impairment, their comorbidity across broad classes of disorder, and …

Longitudinal sociometric data on adolescent friendship pairs, friends-to-be, and former
friends are examined to assess levels of homophily on four attributes (frequency of current …

OBJECTIVES. This study sought to describe patterns of initiation, persistence, and cessation
in drug use in individuals from their late 20s to their mid-30s, within a broad perspective that …

The spread in the use of marihuana and other illicit drugs in the popula-tion represents one
of the most striking and best documented instances of social change during the last decade …

Actual similarity on a variety of attributes (sociodemographic, background characteristics,
attitudes, and behaviors) was investigated in a large sample of friendship pairs among high …

Basic processes of socialization by parents and peers involving modeling and social
reinforcement, in their direct, indirect, and contingent manifestations, are investigated with …

The social psychological antecedents of entry into three sequential stages of adolescent
drug use, hard liquor, marihuana, and other illicit drugs, are examined in a cohort of high …

• We examined sequelae of depressive mood, experienced at ages 15 to 16 years, nine
years later at ages 24 to 25 years in subjects formerly enrolled in New York State public high …