| Literature DB >> 26862133 |
Cory M Morton1, Heidi Hoefinger2, Rebecca Linn-Walton3, Ross Aikins4, Gregory P Falkin5.
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.Entities:
Keywords: adolescent attitudes; drug abuse; information dissemination
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Year: 2016 PMID： 26862133 PMCID： PMC4984531 DOI： 10.1177/0047237915622084
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Drug Educ ISSN： 0047-2379