The Marijuana Ladder: Measuring motivation to change marijuana use in incarcerated adolescents

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-48

  Slavet, James D ^a   Stein, L A R ^a   Colby, Suzanne M ^a   Barnett, Nancy P ^a   Monti, Peter M ^a   Golembeske Jr , Charles ^a   Lebeau Craven, Rebecca ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Juvenile delinquents; Marijuana use; Motivation to change

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTIVATION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MOTIVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

CANNABIS; CANNABIS SATIVA;

EID: 33646200093     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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