ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2011
Substance use and exercise participation among young adults: parallel trajectories in a national cohort-sequential study.
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- The effects of exercise interventions on substance-use outcomes: A meta-analytic and systematic review.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Exercise Intervention Program for People With Substance Use Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Exercise (Wheel-Running) Reduces Chronic Alcohol-Induced Escalation of Drinking in Mice via Elevated BDNF-TrkB Receptor Activity.Research square · 2026Article
- Comparing random forest and elastic net models to predict substance use disorder transitions in participants with cannabis and stimulant use: Evidence from the All of Us cohort.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- Lifestyle Behavior Patterns and Socio-Demographic Predictors Among US College Students: Implications for Chronic Condition Risk and Public Health Interventions.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- Physical Therapy for Addiction.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Epidemiology of physical activity and sedentary behavior levels among patients entering treatment for substance use disorder in the United States: a descriptive study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Physical inactivity during adolescence heightens risk for cannabis use disorder in adulthood.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Examining protective factors for substance use problems and self-harm behavior during adolescence: A longitudinal co-twin control study.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Dopamine D1 and D2 receptors are distinctly associated with rest-activity rhythms and drug reward.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2021Article
- Exploring pathways to substance use: A longitudinal examination of adolescent sport involvement, aggression, and peer substance use.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Patterns of marijuana use and physical health indicators among Canadian youth.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2020Article
- The end of convergence in developmental patterns of frequent marijuana use from ages 18 to 30: An analysis of cohort change from 1976-2016.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
- Drug, nicotine, and alcohol use among exercisers: Does substance addiction co-occur with exercise addiction?Addictive behaviors reports · 2018Article
- Physical Activity and the Development of Substance Use Disorders: Current Knowledge and Future Directions.Progress in preventive medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2018Article
- On the Run for Hippocampal Plasticity.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2018Review
- Are Sports-Related Factors Correlated to the Prevalence and Initiation of Illicit Drug Misuse in Adolescence? Prospective Study in Older Adolescents.BioMed research international · 2018Article
- Neurobiology of substance use in adolescents and potential therapeutic effects of exercise for prevention and treatment of substance use disorders.Birth defects research · 2017Review
- Drinking and exercise behaviors among college students: between and within-person associations.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Sex differences in drug addiction and response to exercise intervention: From human to animal studies.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2016Review
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Abstract
aimsThis study examined the extent to which the trajectory of participation in sports, athletics or exercising (PSAE) covaried with substance use in early adulthood controlling for team sports participation using parallel process latent growth curve modeling. DESIGN, SETTING AND
participantsAnalysis of data collected from a series of panel studies using a cohort-sequential design. Specifically, the analyses used longitudinal data from 11 741 individuals from the graduating classes of 1986-2001, first surveyed as seniors in American high schools. Up to four additional follow-up surveys were administered to age 26 years. Data were collected using in-school and mailed self-administered questionnaires. MEASUREMENTS: Level of PSAE, past-30-day alcohol, cigarette and marijuana use frequency and any past-30-day use of illicit drugs other than marijuana (IOTM) were the main processes of interest. Self-reported race/ethnicity, college status at age 19/20 years, parental education, gender and team sports participation during high school were included as covariates.
findingsResults indicate that higher initial levels of PSAE related to lower initial substance use prevalence rates other than alcohol, and lower initial prevalence rates of substance use then corresponded with lower substance use rates throughout early adulthood. Further, as individuals increased PSAE levels throughout early adulthood, the frequency of their use of cigarettes, marijuana and IOTM correspondingly decreased.
conclusionsIncreased participation in sports, athletics or exercising (PSAE) is related to significantly lower substance use frequency at modal age 18 and through significantly and negatively correlated growth trajectories through early adulthood. Encouraging PSAE among adolescents and early adults may relate to lower substance use levels throughout early adulthood.
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