Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement: Examining The Gateway Hypothesis

Part I. Overview: 1. Examining the gateway hypothesis: stages and pathways of drug involvement Denise B. Kandel Part II. Recent Substantive Findings: What Do We Know about Stages of Drug Use, Risks and Protective Factors?: 2. Drug sequences, age of onset and use trajectories as predictors of drug abuse/dependence in young adulthood Erich Labouvie and Helene R. White 3. Substance use norms and transitions in substance use: implications for the gateway hypothesis David Hawkins, Karl G. Hill, Jie Guo and Sara R. Battin-Pearson 4. Stages of drug involvement in the US population Denise B. Kandel and Kazuo Yamaguchi 5. Substance use progression and hard drug use in inner city New York Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson Part III. Impact of Prevention Interventions: a Test of the Progression Hypothesis: 6. Preventing the onset and developmental progression of adolescent drug use: implications for the gateway theory Gilbert Botvin, Kenneth Griffin and Lawrence Scheier 7. The gateway theory applied to prevention Mary Ann Pentz and Chaoyang Li 8. Intervention effects on adult drug use and critical influence on development of problem behavior Anthony Biglan and Keith Smolkowski Part IV. Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods: 9. Log linear sequence analysis: gender and racial/ethnic differences in drug-use progression Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise B. Kandel 10. Cigarette use and drug use progression: a growth trajectory and lagged effect hypothesis Peter M. Bentler, Michael D. Newcomb and Marc A. Zimmerman 11. Using latent transition analysis to examine the gateway hypothesis Linda Collins 12. Stages of drug progression: a comparison of methods, concepts and operationalizations Kazuo Yamaguchi Part V. Animal Models and Biological Professes: Implications for Drug Progression: 13. The value of animal models to examine the gateway hypothesis Neil E. Grunberg and Martha M. Faraday 14. Sensitization as a process underlying the progression of drug use via gateway drugs Susan Schenk 15. The neurobiology of drug addiction George Koob Part VI. Conclusion: 16. The gateway hypothesis revisited Denise B. Kandel and Richard Jessor.