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The Correlates And Consequences Of Drug Involvement Among Youths Entering A Juvenile Justice Diversion Program, Richard Dembo, Jennifer Wareham, Norman Poythress, Brittany Cook

Norman Poythress

We report the results of the relationship of lifetime and past year drug involvement to psychosocial functioning among youths entering a Juvenile Arbitration Program (a diversion program) in the 13th Judicial Circuit, who enrolled in a Center for Substance Abuse Treatment funded study. The project is a clinical trial evaluating an innovative intervention service providing sixteen weeks of intensive case management services to youths and their families. The present study examines baseline interview data for 165 youths who entered the Juvenile Arbitration Program between June 2002 and July 2003 and agreed to participate in the project. The results indicate that …