ABSTRACT
Drug use among young adolescents has become an increasingly frequent behavior. Among some young adolescents the absence of a personal source of supply for various chemicals may inhibit drug-taking whereas the youth is sure that he or she will initiate or escalate drug use when a supply becomes available at some time in the future. Frequency of use data were collected for cigarettes, beer, wine, liquor, cocaine, tranquilizers, drug store medication used to get “high,” heroin and other opiates, marijuana, hashish, inhalant, hallucinogenic, and amphetamines. An examination of the relationship of use and intended use is necessary to ascertain whether intentions about future drug-taking are related to previous experience with drugs. Multivariate redundancy analysis was used to examine the predictability of the intentions variables from the drug use variables. The total array of drug taking, the accuracy of prediction was increased between 1 and 8 per cent.
