ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT. This paper focuses on the perceived value of various resources to assist youths with a drug problem. An analysis of data gathered in a survey of minority youths attending an inner city, junior high school found that resource preference varied according to their degree of drug involvement and the type of neighborhood setting in which they perceived they lived. The youths expressed broad support for traditional, institutional representatives in dealing with drug problems. However, as the level of perceived toughness/drug use in their neighborhoods, and their degree of drug involvement, increased, the youths tended to rely more on peers as drug problem aides. Implications of these findings for future drug abuse prevention and intervention strategies among youths in the inner city are drawn.
