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Co-Occurrence of Substance Use Behaviors in Youth

Organization: 
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and and Delinquency Prevention
Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Justice
Date Published: 
November, 2008

This bulletin examines the prevalence and overlap of substance-related behaviors among youth, making comparisons based on age group, gender, and race/ethnicity. Findings reported in this bulletin are drawn from the first two stages of the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which gathered self-reports from a nationally representative sample of youth ages 12

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