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Truancy’s Effect on the Onset of Drug Use among Urban Adolescents Placed at Risk

Henry, Kimberly L., Huizinga, David H.·2007·Journal of Adolescent Health
DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.11.138
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Purpose To examine the relationship between truancy and the onset of drug use.Methods Discrete time survival analysis was used to assess the effect of truancy on initiation of drug use after adjusting for several potential confounders from age 11 to 15 years, using data from the Denver Youth Survey, a longitudinal sample of youth who grew up in socially disorganized neighborhoods of Denver, CO.Results In this population, truancy was a significant predictor of initiation of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use. The robust effect of truancy persisted after controlling for potential confounders, including school performance, school isolation, association with delinquent peers, personal delinquent values, parental monitoring, and family attachment.Conclusions Although this study cannot point to a causal relationship, we argue that the effect may be at least in part due to the unsupervised, unmonitored time with peers that truancy affords a young person. Truancy prevention is a field of research that needs much more attention. Keeping youth in school every day is likely to have many beneficial effects, and effective truancy prevention efforts may also help to prevent or delay the onset of drug use among adolescents.

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  • Prior work has well documented links between high school absences and later dropout, drug use, and criminal activity (Rumberger and Rotermund, 2012; Hawkins et al., 1998; Henry and Huizinga, 2007; Loeber and Farrington, 2000; Rocque et al., 2017).

    “The correlation between high school absences and poor long-run outcomes, such as dropout, drug use, and criminal activity, is well documented (Rumberger and Rotermund, 2012;Hawkins et al., 1998;Henry and Huizinga, 2007;Loeber and Farrington, 2000;Rocque et al., 2017).”

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Authors
Henry, K. L., & Huizinga, D. H.
Affiliations
  • Colorado State University (US)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
Corresponding author
Henry, Kimberly L.
ORCID
Henry, Kimberly L.
Venue
Journal of Adolescent Health
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-04
Volume
40
Issue
4
Pages
358.e9-358.e17
ISSN
1054-139X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.11.138
OpenAlex
W1997986275
Cited by
149
References
37
Citations by year
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FWCI
26.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Drug Abuse (K01DA017810)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
truancy, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, cannabis use, at-risk youth, parental supervision, family attachment, delinquent peer association, school isolation, truancy prevention
MeSH terms
Absenteeism, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Child, Colorado, Female, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Male, Population Surveillance, Residence Characteristics, Urban Health, Causality, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Proportional Hazards Models, Survival Analysis, Sex Distribution, Risk Assessment, Substance-Related Disorders

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