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Psychological factors associated with substance use initiation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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96 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 201 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Alcohol and other substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Pooled it
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- COVID-19, sense of control, and the rise of addictive behaviors: a study in Poland.Postepy psychiatrii neurologii · 2025Article
- Dual pandemic of firearm injury and COVID-19 in Central and Southeastern Ohio: An interrupted time series analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Naturalistic use of psychedelics is associated with longitudinal improvements in anxiety and depression during global crisis times.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Occurrence and temporal changes of pharmaceuticals in the Warta River in Poland during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Development and Validation of the Positive Outcomes of Cannabis Use Scale (POCUS) Among Predominantly White Adults in the United States.Assessment · 2025Article
- Loneliness, emotional support and the mental health of young adults and their parents in New York, US during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- SIR+ models: accounting for interaction-dependent disease susceptibility in the planning of public health interventions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sources of strength: a process evaluation of a university-high school partnership to promote mental health protective factors.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Substance Use Patterns and Their Association with Depression and Social Factors During COVID-19 Among Harlem Residents in New York City.Journal of community health · 2023Article
- Depressive symptoms and the age of initiation of tobacco and marijuana use among adolescents and young adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Changes in self-reported cannabis use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The 2019 outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a devastating impact. Given the on-going nature of the outbreak, the deleterious toll on mental health, including substance use, is unknown. Negative reinforcement models of substance use posit that elevations in stress from the COVID-19 pandemic will elicit a corresponding motivation to downregulate COVID-19-related stress reactivity via substance use for a subset of the population. The current study sought to evaluate: (1) if COVID-19-related worry and fear were associated with substance use coping motives; and (2) how levels of COVID-19-related worry and fear differ between pre-COVID-19 substance users, COVID-19 substance initiators, and abstainers. Participants were 160 adults recruited nationally between April-May 2020 for an online study. Results indicated that COVID-19-related worry was associated with substance use coping motives. Additionally, compared to abstainers, pre-COVID-19 substance users and COVID-19 substance initiators demonstrated the highest levels of worry and fear. Examination of differences suggested that the COVID-19 substance initiators had the highest COVID-19-related worry and fear for all substances except for opioids, with effect size estimates ranging from small to medium. The results of this study suggest that COVID-19-specific psychological factors appear to be involved in substance use behavior.
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