Drug Use & Deviance

In Early Deviance and Related Risk Factors in the Children of Narcotic Addicts, Nurco, Blatchley, Hanlon and O'Grady (1999) report the results of a meta-analysis on the self-reported behaviors of 285 male and female adolescents (ages 12-17) of narcotic addicted parents participating in methadone programs. The results of the self-report measures found that "early deviance is related to current adolescent drug and alcohol use, association with deviant peers, a negative view of self, and psychological symptomatology" (Nurco et al. 1999, 25).

There are a number of risks and protective factors the researchers found associated with deviance in children in the form of drug or alcohol use and other criminal behavior. A number of family or home environment factors appear to play the largest role in manifesting deviance in children. This is particularly true with children of addicts who remain at high-risk for developing deviant behaviors. Substance abuse problems are one of the most common deviant behaviors in children of such populations. There are a numbe

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