ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2015
A multi-level analysis of the impact of neighborhood structural and social factors on adolescent substance use.
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- Using structured implementation interventions to improve referral to substance use treatment among justice-involved youth: Findings from a multisite cluster randomized trial.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Trial
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- Neighborhood Disadvantage and Adolescent Substance Use: Differences by Urbanicity and Substance Type.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Alcohol Use Amongst Rural Adolescents and Young Adults: A Brief Review of the Literature.Psychological reports · 2026Review
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- A Multilevel Analysis of Social Environmental Factors Related to Substance Use, Tobacco Use, and Binge Drinking Behaviors Among Older Adults.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Pubertal mediators of early life stress and age on adolescent alcohol initiation: Analysis by sex.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Racial Differences in Biopsychosocial Pathways to Tobacco and Marijuana Use Among Youth.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Early life stress and pubertal predictors of subsequent substance use in a national diverse sample of adolescents: Sex and substance type matter.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Examining the association between public health unit spending and adolescent substance use.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Spatial and Environmental Correlates of Prevalence of Treatment for Substance Use Disorders, Retention, and SUD Services Utilization in South Sardinia.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Article
- Examining Parental Monitoring, Neighborhood Peer Anti-social Behavior, and Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Control as a Pathway to Adolescent Substance Use.Journal of child and family studies · 2023Article
- Trends in heroin use and injection drug use among high school students in five urban school districts in the US (2005-2017).Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse · 2023Article
- The role of negative emotional reactivity and neighborhood factors in predicting marijuana use during early adolescence.Journal of adolescence · 2020Article
- Neighborhood Structural Factors and Proximal Risk for Youth Substance Use.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Article
- Do Drinking Motives Mediate the Relationship between Neighborhood Characteristics and Alcohol Use among Adolescents?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- The neighbourhood social environment and alcohol use among urban and rural Scottish adolescents.International journal of public health · 2019Article
- Neighborhood, Family, and Peer Factors Associated with Early Adolescent Smoking and Alcohol Use.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2018Article
- Independent and Interactive Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Social Network Characteristics on Problem Drinking after Treatment.Journal of social and clinical psychology · 2018Article
- Neighborhood Moderation of Sensation Seeking Effects on Adolescent Substance Use Initiation.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis paper examined the effects of neighborhood structural (i.e., economic disadvantage, immigrant concentration, residential stability) and social (e.g., collective efficacy, social network interactions, intolerance of drug use, legal cynicism) factors on the likelihood of any adolescent tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use.
methodsAnalyses drew upon information from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN). Data were obtained from a survey of adult residents of 79 Chicago neighborhoods, two waves of interviews with 1657 to 1664 care-givers and youth aged 8 to 16 years, and information from the 1990 U.S. Census Bureau. Hierarchical Bernoulli regression models estimated the impact of neighborhood factors on substance use controlling for individual-level demographic characteristics and psycho-social risk factors.
resultsFew neighborhood factors had statistically significant direct effects on adolescent tobacco, alcohol or marijuana use, although youth living in neighborhoods with greater levels of immigrant concentration were less likely to report any drinking.
conclusionAdditional theorizing and more empirical research are needed to better understand the ways in which contextual influences affect adolescent substance use and delinquency.
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