Exposure to Drug Trafficking Among Urban, Low-Income African American Children and Adolescents
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent MedicinePublished 1 February 1999Open access
Xiaoming Li, Bonita Stanton, Susan Feigelman
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Children and adolescents who were exposed to drug trafficking reported more risk-taking and delinquent behaviors, drug use, threats to achievement, and a perception of more peer involvement in these risk behaviors.
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Exposure to drug trafficking is a unique risk factor that is strongly associated with exposure to other forms of community violence and involvement in other risk behaviors.
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