Ecstasy Use Among Adolescents

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KS OmniScriptum Publishing

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491_9783639065183

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While youth drug use isn?t a new phenomenon, howyouth make decisions about drug use is. Why wouldyoung people choose to experiment with drugs, knowingthat using drugs can have negative physical andsocial consequences? This book will explore the useof the Decision Making Model and the Multi-AttributeUtility to study adolescents? perceived consequencesof drug use against the value and likelihood of thoseconsequences occurring. If consequences aren?tperceived as likely to occur, how can they deter use?Ecstasy Expectancy Scale, developed through thisresearch, can impact future studies regarding youthdrug use. What we have learned is that young peopleare using substances and engaging in high riskbehavior in search of something. The sooner weunderstand what that ?something? is, the safer andhealthy our young people will be.

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