The Relationships of Drug Items Communicated by Teenaged Interviewees to Teenaged and Adult Interviewers

The paper discusses the relationships of drug items communicated by teenaged interviewees to teenaged and adult interviewers. The subjects were teenagers residing in East, Central and West Harlem. A pool of 298 tapes of interviews was gathered from which sixty tapes were randomly selected. Thirty tapes were from the teenaged interviewers and thirty tapes were from the adult interviewers. The types of explanations used by teenagers for drug use included ten categories established by the investigator. The interrelationship among the ten categories were calculated by the statistical analysis, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to determine the extent of agreement.