Research

Project

SSDP – Substance Use and Transitions to Adult Roles

Start Dates: 1996
PI(s): J. David Hawkins
Project Director: Karl G. Hill
Funding: National Institute on Drug Abuse

Project Description

This project collects and analyzes data from the SSDP sample in young adulthood to examine factors that affect the transition to adult roles. Analysis of the causes and consequences of early onset offending, the predictors of adolescent sexual behavior and pregnancy, the predictors of hard drug use and smoking, as well as the dimensions of positive behavior in early adulthood are also conducted.