Natural Peer Leaders as Substance Use Prevention Agents: the Teens’ Life Choice Project

Neighborhood Norms and Substance Use among Teens.

This paper uses new data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A. FANS) to examine how neighborhood norms shape teenagers' substance use. Specifically, it takes advantage of clustered data at the neighborhood level to relate adult neighbors' attitudes and behavior with respect to smoking, drinking, and drugs, which we treat as norms, to teenagers' own smoking, drinking, and dru...

Is it the music? Peer substance use as a mediator of the link between music preferences and adolescent substance use.

Both music preferences and the substance use behavior of peers are important elements in explaining adolescent substance use. The extent to which music preference and peer use overlap in explaining adolescent substance use remains to be determined. A nationally representative sample of 7324 Dutch school-going adolescents (aged 12-16) provided data on music preferences, substance use behaviors a...

Java Mobile Agents on Project JXTA Peer-to-Peer Platform

Over the last year Peer-to-Peer (p2p) implementations have evolved from experimental to sophisticated systems. Mobile agents have a long e-Commerce history dating back to the middle 1990’s, and have not been generally accepted by the corporate, e-Commerce mainstream. This is because of a misfit with the client-server model. With the advent of p2p networks, sub-network, eco-system like communiti...

Impulsivity, peer influence, and adolescent substance use

Comparison of the Effectiveness of the Psychological Training Package of Substance Use Prevention and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on the Attitude toward Substance Use in Students Prone to Substance Use

Objective: This research was conducted to compare the effectiveness of the psychological training package of substance use prevention and cognitive-behavioral therapy on the attitude toward substance use in students prone to substance use. Method: The present research was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and follow-up design with a control group. Among the male students prone to substan...