Educational attainment and prescription drug misuse: The importance of push and pull factors for dropping out.

ABSTRACT: Young adults who do not complete high school are at increased risk for substance use and offending behavior. A limitation of this research is that dropouts are often treated as a homogeneous group, which ignores the various push (e.g., academic failure or disciplinary problems) and pull (e.g., family responsibility or economic need) factors for leaving school. The current study relies on multiple years of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2009-2014) and examines several dependent variables, including prevalence of prescription drug misuse, frequent prescription drug misuse, and prescription drug-related substance use disorder symptoms. We assess the importance of push and pull factors for dropping out, and compare dropouts to respondents who completed school. Multivaria

SUBMITTER: Ford JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7449532 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature