Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement - Examining the Gateway Hypothesis

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 volume 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. Contents
Part I. Overview: 1. Examining the gateway hypothesis: stages and pathways of drug involvement Denise B. Kandel
Part II. Recent Substantive Findings: What do we Know about Stages of Drug Use, Risks and Protective Factors? 2. Drug sequences, age of onset and use trajectories as predictors of drug abuse/dependence in young adulthood Erich Labouvie and Helene R. White
3. Substance use norms and transitions in substance use: implications for the gateway hypothesis David Hawkins, Karl G. Hill, Jie Guo and Sara R. Battin-Pearson
4. Stages of drug involvement in the US population Denise B. Kandel and Kazuo Yamaguchi
5. Substance use progression and hard drug use in inner city New York Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson
Part III. Impact of Prevention Interventions: a Test of the Progression Hypothesis: 6. Preventing the onset and developmental progression of adolescent drug use: implications for the gateway theory Gilbert Botvin, Kenneth Griffin and Lawrence Scheier
7. The gateway theory applied to prevention Mary Ann Pentz and Chaoyang Li
8. Intervention effects on adult drug use and critical influence on development of problem behavior Anthony Biglan and Keith Smolkowski
Part IV. Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods: 9. Log linear sequence analysis: gender and racial/ethnic differences in drug-use progression Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise B. Kandel
10. Cigarette use and drug use progression: a growth trajectory and lagged effect hypothesis Peter M. Bentler, Michael D. Newcomb and Marc A. Zimmerman
11. Using latent transition analysis to examine the gateway hypothesis Linda Collins
12. Stages of drug progression: a comparison of methods, concepts and operationalizations Kazuo Yamaguchi
Part V. Animal Models and Biological Professes: Implications for Drug Progression: 13. The value of animal models to examine the gateway hypothesis Neil E. Grunberg and Martha M. Faraday
14. Sensitization as a process underlying the progression of drug use via gateway drugs Susan Schenk
15. The neurobiology of drug addiction George Koob
Part VI. Conclusion: 16. The gateway hypothesis revisited Denise B. Kandel and Richard Jessor.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Denise B. Kandel, Columbia University, New York