A Moving Target: Reasons Given by Adolescents for Alcohol and Narcotics Use, 1984 and 1999

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-203

  Palmqvist, Riia A ^a   Martikainen, Liisa K ^a   Von Wright, Maijaliisa Rauste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adolescent drug use; Reasons; Shifts in society

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037217162     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022595403818     Document Type: Article

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