Declining trends in drug dealing among adolescents in the United States |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Social Work, College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States;2. School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States;3. School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States;1. Department of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Medical Centre, Hamburg, Germany;2. LVR-Hospital Essen, Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany;3. Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research, University of Hamburg, Germany;4. Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Health North, Bremen, Germany;5. IFT Institute for Therapeutic Research Munich, Germany;6. Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;7. Hospital Stuttgart, Department for Clinical Psychology, Stuttgart, Germany;8. LWL-Hospital Münster, Outpatient Department for Addiction, Münster, Germany;1. Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The University of Queensland, Australia;2. School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia;3. Discipline of Psychiatry, The University of Queensland, Australia;4. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, The University New South Wales, Australia;5. Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia;6. School of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia;1. Center of Excellence in Substance Addiction Treatment and Education, VA Puget Sound Health Care, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, United States;2. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, 1959 NE, Pacific, Street Box 356560, Room BB1644, Seattle, WA 98195, United States;3. Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, United States;4. Center of Innovation for Veteran Centered and Value Driven Care, Health Services Research and Development, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, United States;1. Department of Health Sciences and Research, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA;2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA;3. Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA;1. Pacific Treatment and Research Center (Pac-TARC), 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, 116A, San Diego, CA 92161, United States;2. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0821, United States;3. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N., M3-B232, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109, United States |
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| Abstract: | IntroductionThe link between drug selling and other delinquent behaviors in adolescence is well established. Less is known regarding the trends in drug selling among youth in the US and whether they are consistent with the recently observed decline in problem behaviors among this population.MethodsData were collected between 2002 and 2015 as part of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Participants included 233,435 US youth aged 12–17. The primary variable of interest was self-reported past year drug-selling. Logistic regression assessed trends in drug-selling among male and female subgroups.ResultsBetween 2002 and 2015, the prevalence of drug-selling decreased significantly across all youth (AOR = 0.970, p < .001). Analysis of gender differences revealed that the rate of drug-selling decreased significantly among boys (AOR = 0.962, p < .001), however, the trend remained stable for girls (AOR = 0.987, p > .05). The decrease in drug-selling was observed for nearly all male subgroups, African-American girls (0.946, p < .01) and girls reporting no illegal substance use in the past year (0.960, p < .05).ConclusionsThe prevalence of past year drug-selling among youth in the US is declining significantly, especially for boys. |
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