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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2012;23(3):10.1353/hpu.2012.0102. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0102

Table 1.

DRUG RELATED PROBLEM SCENARIOS

Item Scenario Offerer Drug
1 You see some of your friends at the fair, so you go cruise with them for the night. Your friend has weed with her and wants to smoke. She offers you some. Peer/Friend Marijuana
2 A big, bulky boy in school is known to be the leader of a group of “tough kids,” who fight and do drugs. He approaches you one day at recess and asks you if you’d like to hang out with his group. Peer/Friend Drugs
3 Your best friend offers you marijuana. You don’t know what might happen to your friendship if you said “no”. Peer/Friend Marijuana
4 You’re at a New Year’s Eve Party with your ‘ohana, and your auntie’s boyfriend offers you some of his beer. Uncle Alcohol
5 You’re at a party with your ‘ohana (family), and one of your older cousins offers you to take a sip of beer. You tell him you gotta go, but he keeps following you and asking you to drink some. Cousin Alcohol
6 Your friends bring Bacardi to school and mix it with juice. They are drinking it on campus during recess. They offer you some. Peer/Friend Alcohol
7 One of your classmates always hangs around with this group of older kids and they smoke weed every day. One day, your classmate asks you if you’d like to eat lunch with them. Peer/Friend Marijuana
8 You are at school, and some of your friends want to skip class so that they can smoke pakalolo (marijuana). They ask you to join them. Peer/Friend Marijuana
9 You are with a girl/boy you like and some other friends. They are all hiding in the bushes and smoking weed. They ask you if you want to try some. After you say no, they say, “Just try this once, it’s cool.” Peer/Friend Marijuana
10 Your older cousin is walking with you to the mall. He takes out some marijuana and says “don’t tell my parents. You like some?” Cousin Marijuana
11 You are at home having dinner with your family. Your parents are drinking beer with dinner, and your mom offers you some. Parent Alcohol
12 On the nights that there is a full moon lots of the older kids like to go out at night because they can kanikapila (play music) and smoke marijuana and drink beer outside. Your older cousin invites you to come along. Cousin Drugs
13 Your dad, uncles, papa, and dad’s friends are making pulehu (barbecue) in the yard, and you are with them. Your mom is inside the house. They are drinking a lot of beer, probably already drunk. Your dad offers you a beer. Parent Alcohol
14 You are at a family party where the adults have coolers full of beer. They are getting drunk, so you and your cousins can take a beer without the adults noticing. One of your cousins says to you, “Let’s grab one.” Cousin Alcohol
15 Your older brother enters your bedroom, closes the door, and asks you if you’d like to smoke some weed. Sibling Marijuana