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FIGURE 2. Drug used at initiation <strong>of</strong> drug career (N = 117).
SOURCE: Elekes (1991).
Living with father an average <strong>of</strong> 11.9 years;
Have an average <strong>of</strong> three to four siblings; the abuser is the firstor
second-born child;
Twenty-five percent <strong>of</strong> inhalant abusers have a deviant mother, and
25-30 percent have a deviant father (deviant is defined as suicidal,
mentally ill, or alcoholic);
School performance included frequent failure or repeated class
(60 percent while in elementary school), and only 40 percent
graduated from elementary school;
Short-term frequent users (38.5 percent) were mainly unskilled
workers;
Long-term frequent users (31.4 percent) also were mainly unskilled
workers or never worked;
Seldom users (30 percent) mainly never worked;
Have an average <strong>of</strong> at least five drug user friends;
Had first sexual experience at age 14;
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