Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Overview
- Part II Recent Substantive Findings: What Do We Know About Stages of Drug Use, Risks, and Protective Factors?
- Part III Impact of Prevention Interventions: A Test of the Progression Hypothesis
- Part IV Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods
- 9 Log Linear Sequence Analyses: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Drug Use Progression
- 10 Cigarette Use and Drug Use Progression: Growth Trajectory and Lagged Effect Hypotheses
- 11 Using Latent Transition Analysis to Examine the Gateway Hypothesis
- 12 Stages of Drug Use Progression: A Comparison of Methods, Concepts, and Operationalizations
- Part V Animal Models and Biological Processes: Implications for Drug Progression
- Part VI Conclusion
- Index
11 - Using Latent Transition Analysis to Examine the Gateway Hypothesis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Overview
- Part II Recent Substantive Findings: What Do We Know About Stages of Drug Use, Risks, and Protective Factors?
- Part III Impact of Prevention Interventions: A Test of the Progression Hypothesis
- Part IV Methodological Issues and Approaches: Advantages and Limitations of Alternate Methods
- 9 Log Linear Sequence Analyses: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Drug Use Progression
- 10 Cigarette Use and Drug Use Progression: Growth Trajectory and Lagged Effect Hypotheses
- 11 Using Latent Transition Analysis to Examine the Gateway Hypothesis
- 12 Stages of Drug Use Progression: A Comparison of Methods, Concepts, and Operationalizations
- Part V Animal Models and Biological Processes: Implications for Drug Progression
- Part VI Conclusion
- Index
Summary
According to the Gateway Hypothesis, in some cases one substance serves as a gateway for another, more advanced substance. In other words, it is necessary to go through this gateway in order to reach the more advanced substance. In a series of studies (Kandel & Faust, 1975; Yamaguchi & Kandel, 1984a, 1984b; Kandel, 1988; Kandel & Yamaguchi, 1993), Kandel and colleagues have examined the Gateway Hypothesis in detail. In general, these researchers have found that the legal drugs alcohol and tobacco appear to act as gateways for more advanced substances; alcohol plays a somewhat more important role for men and cigarettes play a somewhat more important role for women. Marijuana comes next, followed by cocaine and crack. Collins and colleagues (Graham, Collins, Wugalter, Chung, & Hansen, 1991; Collins, Graham, Long, & Hansen, 1994; Collins, Graham, Rousculp, & Hansen, 1997; Collins, Hyatt, & Graham, 2000; Hyatt & Collins, 2000) have examined the very early part of the onset process, looking at a sample of junior high and high school students. They have found that the onset process usually starts with alcohol; individuals go on either to try tobacco and then have a first experience with drunkenness or to have a first experience with drunkenness followed by trying tobacco. However, a small subset of individuals start their substance use experience with tobacco, go on to try alcohol, and then have a first experience with drunkenness.
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- Stages and Pathways of Drug InvolvementExamining the Gateway Hypothesis, pp. 254 - 269Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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