ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2021
Predictors of cannabis use among first-time justice-involved youth: A cohort study.
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- VOICES: An efficacious trauma-informed, gender-responsive cannabis use intervention for justice and school-referred girls with lifetime substance use history.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Trial
- Family Factors Associated With Delinquency Outcomes in Court-Involved Youth in Mental Health Treatment.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- The behavioral health needs of legally involved sexual minority female adolescents.Health & justice · 2025Article
- The Role of Family Factors in the Outcomes of Court-Involved Youth.Youth violence and juvenile justice · 2023Article
- Readiness to change among justice-involved young adults in an alternative sentencing program who screened positive for alcohol or drug risk.Addictive behaviors reports · 2022Article
- Determinant Factors of Alcohol Consumption Among Indonesian Adolescents Through Parents' Attention: Findings from a National Survey.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2022Article
- The prospective impact of adverse childhood experiences on justice-involved youth's psychiatric symptoms and substance use.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Article
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backgroundJustice-involved youth use cannabis at higher rates than their same-aged peers increasing likelihood of adverse behavioral health consequences and continued legal involvement. This study examined individual level predictors of early onset use cannabis use (<13 years of age) and cannabis use initiation in the 12 months following first court contact.
methodsParticipants were 391 first-time justice-involved youth (56.9 % male; M
resultsIn multivariable models, youth who reported lifetime cannabis use (n = 188, 48.1 %) were older, reported alcohol use and positive cannabis use expectancies. Greater self-control and self-concept were associated with lower likelihood of lifetime cannabis use. Youth who initiated cannabis during the 12-month follow-up (n = 30, 14.8 %) tended to be older, White/non-Latinx, and to report more psychiatric symptoms (posttraumatic stress, externalizing, internalizing, and affect dysregulation), delinquent behavior, lower levels of self-control, poorer self-concept, greater drug use intentions and positive cannabis expectancies. In the multivariable survival analysis, affect dysregulation, internalizing symptoms, and more positive cannabis expectancies remained independently and positively associated with cannabis initiation.
conclusionsThere is a critical and unique window of opportunity to prevent cannabis use initiation among first-time justice-involved youth. Research is needed to determine whether brief interventions that aim to modify expectancies about cannabis use reduce rates of cannabis initiation in this underserved population.
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