Drug Abuse

Question by kirsty: what are the predictors of adolscent drug abuse?
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Answer by Anonymous
I’m not sure if I have the correct understanding between a “predictor” and a “correlating factor”

– Socio-economic status
– Education level (or, failing that, academic achievement relative to their peers)
– Obsessive-compulsive or addictive personality disorders diagnosed or suspected in blood relations

Possibly any of the “prohibited grounds” could have an effect (gender, race, national origin, etc.) as a correlating factor, but I’d suspect that those could be broken down into their dependencies on the above.