Educational attainment and prescription drug misuse: The importance of push and pull factors for dropping out

Young adults who do not complete high school are at increased risk for substance use and offending behavior. A limitation of this research is that dropouts are often treated as a homogeneous group, which ignores the various push (e.g., academic failure or disciplinary problems) and pull (e.g., family responsibility or economic need) factors for leaving school.The current study relies on multiple years of data from the National Survey on Drug Use...