Article: Rural adolescent perceptions of alcohol and other drug resistance.

A complete census of 361 rural high school students in grades 9 through 12 participated in a study to examine their perceptions of drug resistance difficulties when offered beer, marijuana, and hard drugs. For triangulation purposes, a mixed methodological approach was used involving the collection of qualitative data using focus groups and a semi-structured questionnaire. Students were classified according to degree of drug use. A content analysis of responses resulted in 15 response categories, with nonusers reporting the widest range of explanations for drug resistance difficulty. This range of responses suggests that drug resistance difficulty is attributed to several ...

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