
@article{ref1,
title="Examining heroin use and prescription opioid misuse among adolescents",
journal="Criminal justice studies",
year="2017",
author="Forsyth, Craig J. and Biggar, Raymond W. and Chen, Jing and Burstein, Karen",
volume="30",
number="3",
pages="320-329",
abstract="Based on data from 2008 thru the 2014 Communities that Care Youth Survey (CCYS), the authors examine change in lifetime use frequencyof heroin and misuse of prescription opiates using a cohort longitudinal model. The cohort were 6th graders in 2008; 8th graders in 2010; 10th graders in 2012 and 12th graders in 2014. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate a declining numbers of abstainers for both drugs and moderate associations between using both drugs in all 4 grades. Implications for delinquency models are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1478-601X",
doi="10.1080/1478601X.2017.1286836",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2017.1286836"
}