ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2022
Young adult opioid misuse indicates a general tendency toward substance use and is strongly predicted by general substance use risk.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Understanding Opioid Use from Retrospective Accounts of Young Adults in Recovery: Motives, Experiences, and Implications for Prevention.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Prevention and Management of Opioid use Disorder and Overdose in Adolescents and Young Adults.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Investing in Interventions to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder in Adolescents and Young Adults: Start-up Costs from NIDA's HEAL Prevention Initiative.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- The association of alcohol use and heavy drinking with subsequent handgun carrying among youth from rural areas.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2024Article
- Causation and Common Liability in the Progression of the U.S. Opioid Crisis.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2024Article
- Contextualizing prescription opioid misuse and heroin use within dimensional models of drug involvement.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether young adult opioid misuse reflects a general tendency toward substance use and is influenced by general substance use risk or whether it is a different phenomenon from other drug use.
methodsAt ages 23 (2016) and 26 (2019), a panel of young adults (n = 3794 to 3833) in the United States self-reported their past-month substance use (opioid misuse, heavy drinking, cigarettes, cannabis) and substance-specific risk factors (perceptions of harm; approval of use; and use of each substance by friends and romantic partners). Structural equation models examined non-opioid and opioid-specific associations between latent risk and substance use factors.
resultsOpioid misuse and opioid-specific risk factors shared significant variance with latent substance use and latent substance use risk, respectively, which were strongly associated. A statistically significant residual correlation between opioid-specific risk and opioid misuse remained.
conclusionYoung adult opioid misuse reflects a general tendency toward substance use and is strongly predicted by risk for substance use. Opioid-specific risk factors play only a small independent role. Existing evidence-based substance use interventions may be effective in preventing opioid misuse among young adults.
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