ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2019
Cannabis and alcohol use for sleep aid: A daily diary investigation.
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- Cannabis use as a moderator of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Trial
- A pilot randomized clinical trial of Brief Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia to reduce problematic cannabis use among trauma-exposed young adults.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Trial
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- Joint Relations Among Cannabis, Sleep, and Affective Symptomatology: A Scoping Review.Current addiction reports · 2026Review
- Substance use to cope with trauma: the interactive effect of insomnia and neighborhood socioeconomic status.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Sleep Motives and Expectancies for Cannabis Use in Pregnancy.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2026Article
- A Meta-Analysis of Bi-Directional Associations between Sleep Health and Substance Use among U.S. Youth: Racial/Ethnic Differences.Current addiction reports · 2025Article
- Sleep quality and duration following the use and co-use of alcohol and cannabis in the daily life of community adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Dynamic associations between cannabis use and sleep in adolescents and young adults during a cannabis intervention trial.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Multiple motives for cannabis use: identifying common motive combinations and exploring differences across combinations.Journal of cannabis research · 2025Article
- Sleep quality and duration as predictors of alcohol and cannabis use motives in daily life.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- Bidirectional associations between sleep and cannabis and alcohol (co-)use in daily life.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Efficiently Quantifying Egocentric Social Network Cannabis Use: Initial Psychometric Validation of the Brief Cannabis Social Density Assessment.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Young Adult Alcohol and Cannabis Impaired Driving After the Opening of Cannabis Retail Stores in Washington State.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveOne in 5 college students use substances such as cannabis and/or alcohol to help sleep. Despite this high prevalence of sleep aid use, there remains a lack of research on the potential day-to-day sleep- and substance-related consequences. The current study examined associations of cannabis and alcohol sleep aid use with subsequent sleep and substance use consequences among college students.
methodOf a baseline sample of 217 college students endorsing past-month cannabis and/or alcohol use (1% cannabis only, 42% alcohol only, 58% both), 83 students endorsing past-month cannabis and/or alcohol use for sleep aid (
resultsMultilevel models demonstrated that nights of cannabis sleep aid use predicted longer same-night sleep duration, shorter same-night wake time after sleep onset, and greater next-day daytime fatigue within person, after controlling for daily cannabis frequency. Alcohol sleep aid use was not associated with sleep-related outcomes or negative drinking consequences after controlling for daily alcohol quantity; these null results may be due to a low frequency of alcohol sleep aid use (1% of observations) over 14 days of assessment.
conclusionsResults highlight daytime fatigue as a potential adverse short-term outcome of cannabis sleep aid use, despite its proximal sleep-related benefits. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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