| Background |
- Drs. Pandina, White, Johnson and Bates are investigators on the HHDP, which began in 1979. The HHDP is a prospective, longitudinal study of the emergence and unfolding of alcohol and other drug use behaviors in interaction with the individual's physical, psychological and social development from adolescence into adulthood.
- This study has been funded by NIAAA, NIDA, NIJ, ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the MacManus Foundation. The design of the HHDP study involves three partially overlapping, longitudinal sequences each starting at a different age (12, 15, and 18) and spanning a combined age range from 12 to 38 at present.
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| Mission |
- 1.To conduct research on the development, etiology and consequences of addictive behaviors and other comorbid conditions over the life course;
- 2.To provide training for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students in the conduct of research on health and human development;
- 3.To disseminate findings to the research community and practitioners interested in addictive behaviors.
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| Research Focus |
- explication of a taxonomy of developmental trajectories of alcohol and drug use
- identification of developmental antecedents of the initiation and maintenance of use
- identification of short and long term consequences of use
- identification of antecedents to the maturing out
- examination of the comorbidity of substance use with other problem behaviors
- development of measures of problem use (e.g., the Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index; RAPI ).
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| RUTGERS ALCOHOL PROBLEM INDEX (RAPI) |
| Created by Helene Raskin White, Ph.D. and Erich Labouvie, Ph.D., the RAPI is a 23-item self-administered screening tool for assessing adolescent problem drinking. It was developed in order to create a conceptually sound, unidimensional, relatively brief, and easily administered instrument to assess problem drinking in adolescence. More... |
