Introduction: Yonette Thomas and LeShawndra Price
Overview and Perspectives: Denise Kandel and Yonette Thomas
Developmental Trajectories of Drug Use Among African-Americans: Denise Kandel & Yonette Thomas
An agenda for longitudinal research on substance use and abuse with Hispanics in the U.S. and with Latin American populations Jorge Delva; Andrew Grogan-Kaylor; Fernando H. Andrade; Marya Hynes; Ninive Sanchez; & Cristina Bares
Multiple Substance Use Disorders in Juvenile Detainees (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2004): Gary McClelland; Katherine S. Elkington Linda A. Teplin and Karen M. Abram
The Crossover Effect:  Evidence from a Community Longitudinal Study of African Americans: Margaret Ensminger;  Hee-Soon Juon; Kate E. Fothergill; Kerry M. Green; Elaine E. Doherty; Judith A. Robertson
The Influence of informal Social Control Processes on Drug Trajectories and Delinquent Behavior among Mexican American Gang Members: Avelardo Valdez; Alice Cepeda; Charles Kaplan
Racial Differences in Substance Use: Using Longitudinal Data to Fill Gaps in Our Understanding: Helene Raskin White and Rolf Loeber
Predictors of growth trajectories of substance use from 9th to 11th grade among Hispanic adolescents in Southern California: Jennifer B. Unger; Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati; Anamara Ritt-Olson; Daniel W. Soto;Chih-Ping Chou
Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use Risk and Resilience for You th of Mexican Origin during the Transition from Childhood to Early Adolescence: Rand Conger
Latino Adolescent Substance Use in Emerging Immigrant Communities: Implications for Intervention Charles R. Martinez Jr.; Heather H. McClure; J. Mark Eddy
The Stress of Discrimination: A Possible Influence on Drug Use Trajectory?: Clifford Broman
Examining Intergroup Differences in Intra-individual Change: the role of protective factors: Meg Gerrard & Frederick X. Gibbons
TITLE TBA: Michele Cooley Strickland
Trajectories of Substance Use: Academic Performance and Graduation Differentials among African American, Hispanic, and White Secondary School students: Marie-Claude Jipguep; Roderick J. Harrison; and Jennifer Goode
Race/Ethnicity, Religiosity and Differences and Similarities in American Adolescents’ Substance Use
John M. Wallace, Jr. Patterns of Risk Behavior Change from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: Implications for HIV/STD Racial Disparities: Denise D. Hallfors; Abigail A. Haydon and Carolyn Tucker Halpern; and Bonita J. Iritani
Race and Ethnic Influences on Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders: The Case of Caribbean Blacks: Krim Lacey and James S. Jackson
A Contextual-Genetics Approach to Adolescent Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behavior Gene H. Brody, Steven R. H. Beach, and Robert A. Philibert
Drug Abuse Preventive Interventions for Hispanic Youth: State of the Science and Implications for Future Researc h: Guillermo Prado, David Cordova, Nicole Cano, Margaret Arzon, Hilda Pantin, and C. Hendricks Brown
TITLE TBA: Debra Furr-Holden
Final Considerations and New Directions
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