ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2018
Past 15-year trends in lifetime cocaine use among US high school students.
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- Association Between Religiosity and Spirituality and Cocaine Use: A Systematic Review.Journal of religion and health · 2024Pooled it
- A randomized clinical trial of disulfiram at higher doses for the treatment of cocaine use disorder among methadone-stabilized patients.Journal of psychiatric research · 2025Trial
- Patterns and Emerging Trends in Acute Poisoning with Substances of Abuse Used for Recreational Purposes in Adolescents: A Six-Year Multicentre Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Association between ADHD symptoms and illicit stimulants use following 1 year among French university students of the i-Share cohort.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Stimulant misuse among youth.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care · 2022Review
- The effects of cocaine exposure in adolescence: Behavioural effects and neuroplastic mechanisms in experimental models.British journal of pharmacology · 2022Review
- Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD): Current Clinical Perspectives.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2022Review
- Cocaine use in university students: relationships with demographics, mental health, risky sexual practices, and trait impulsivity.CNS spectrums · 2021Article
- The Association Between Substance Use and Violence: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of High School Students in the United States.Community mental health journal · 2021Article
- Cocaine use is declining among emerging adults in the United States: Trends by college enrollment.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundMost recent research on adolescent drug use has focused on alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Less is known about the recent epidemiology of adolescent cocaine use, which has serious health consequences. PURPOSE: To describe recent trends in cocaine use by U.S. high school students, and identify differences in lifetime and repeated use across sex and racial/ethnic groups.
methodsWe used data from the national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) from 1999 to 2015. We estimated the prevalence of lifetime cocaine use (LCU) and repeated lifetime cocaine use (RLCU) across years by race/ethnicity and sex and tested for linear and quadratic trends.
resultsThe prevalence of LCU decreased from 1999 to 2015 (9.54%-5.19%). RLCU also decreased (5.13%-2.84%). Despite the overall decline, LCU and RLCU both rose between 2009-2015 (LCU:2.78%-5.19%, RLCU:1.58%-2.84%). Boys had higher rates of LCU and RLCU than girls (LCU:6.42% vs 4.65%; RLCU:3.69% vs 2.18%). American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic adolescents had the highest overall prevalence of LCU. Black adolescents' LCU patterns differed from other racial/ethnic groups. The prevalence of LCU among Black boys increased over time, while the prevalence for Black girls remained consistently low.
conclusionsAdolescent cocaine use is less common today than in the 1990s. However, rates of adolescent cocaine use have risen across all racial/ethnic groups in the past few years. Public health efforts should address at risk groups with particularly high or rising rates of cocaine use.
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