Raising Healthy Children, Seattle Metropolitan Area, 2004-2011

Raising Healthy Children, initially funded in 1993, is an etiologic study of the development of substance use, with a randomized test of a social development intervention to prevent drug misuse and promote positive youth development nested within it. The study originally included 1,040 individuals who were recruited from 10 schools in a suburban school district in the Northwest United States in 1993, when they were in first or second grade. This dataset is an extension of the original study and includes data collected when participants were ages 18, 21, and 24/25. These data focused on age 18 environmental risk and protective factors for substance misuse and addiction from family, school, peer, community, and individual domains, as well as tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use frequency at ages 18, 21, and 24. Of the 1,040 participants in the study, 494 consented to have their data archived. Demographic information collected includes race, sex, household income, and parent education level.