Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth

1. Introduction
Yonette F. Thomas, LeShawndra N. Price

2. Overview and Perspectives
Denise Kandel, Yonette F. Thomas

3. Developmental Trajectories of Drug Use Among Whites and African-Americans: Evidence for the Crossover Hypothesis
Denise Kandel, Christine Schaffran, Yonette F. Thomas

4. The Crossover Effect: The Influence of Social Roles in an African American Cohort
Margaret E. Ensminger, Kate E. Fothergill, Elaine E. Doherty, Kerry M. Green, Judy A. Robertson, Hee-Soon Juon

5. An Agenda for Longitudinal Research on Substance Use and Abuse with Hispanics in the U.S. And with Latin American Populations
Jorge Delva, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, Fernando H. Andrade, Marya Hynes, Ninive Sanchez, Cristina B. Bares

6. The Stress of Discrimination: A Possible Influence on Drug Use Trajectory?
Clifford L. Broman

7. Race/Ethnicity, Religiosity and Differences and Similarities in American Adolescents’ Substance Use
John M. Wallace, Patrick M. O’Malley, Jerald G. Bachman, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston

8. Racial Differences in Substance Use: Using Longitudinal Data to Fill Gaps in Knowledge
Helene Raskin White, Rolf Loeber, Tammy Chung

9. Predictors of Growth Trajectories of Substance Use from 9th to 11th Grade Among Hispanic Adolescents in Southern California
Jennifer B. Unger, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Anamara Ritt-Olson, Daniel W. Soto, Chih-Ping Chou

10. Predicting Change in Substance Use and Substance Use Cognitions of Mexican Origin Youth during the Transition from Childhood to Early Adolescence
Rand D. Conger, Gary D. Stockdale, Hairong Song, Richard W. Robins, Keith F. Widaman

11. Prospecting Prejudice: An Examination of the Long-Term Effects of Perceived Racial Discrimination on the Health Behavior and Health Status of African Americans
Frederick X. Gibbons, Michelle L. Stock, Ross E. O’Hara, Meg Gerrard

12. The Influence of Neighborhood Context on Exposure to and Use of Substances Among Urban African American Children
Michele Cooley-Strickland, Lindsay Bynum, Katherine Otte, Lingqi Tang, Robert S. Griffin, Tanya J. Quille, Deborah Furr-Holden

13. Trajectories of Substance Use: Academic Performance and Graduation Differentials Among African American, Hispanic, and White Secondary School Students
Marie-Claude Jipguep-Akhtar, Roderick J. Harrison, Jennifer Goode

14. The Influence of Informal Social Control Processes on Drug Trajectories and Delinquent Behavior Among Mexican American Gang Members
Avelardo Valdez, Jarron M. Saint Onge, Alice Cepeda, Charles Kaplan

15. Latino Youth Substance Use in States with Emerging Immigrant Communities
Charles R. Martinez, Heather H. McClure, J. Mark Eddy

16. Racial and Ethnic Influences on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: The Case of Caribbean Blacks
Krim K. Lacey, James S. Jackson, Niki Matusko

17. Drug Abuse Preventive Interventions for Hispanic Youth: State of the Science and Implications for Future Research
Guillermo Prado, David Cordova, Nicole Cano, Margaret Arzon, Hilda Pantin, C. Hendricks Brown

18. Patterns of Risk Behavior Change from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: Implications for HIV/STD Racial Disparities
Denise D. Hallfors, Abigail A. Haydon, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Bonita J. Iritani

19. A Contextual-Genetics Approach to Adolescent Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behavior
Gene H. Brody, Steven R. H. Beach, Robert A. Philibert

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