ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2023
Longitudinal patterns of polysubstance use throughout adolescence: association with adult substance use and psychosocial outcomes controlling for preadolescent risk factors in a male cohort.
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- Longitudinal Bidirectional Associations Between Early Adolescents' Externalizing and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Substance Use Patterns.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of the guided self-change intervention for reducing alcohol use in adolescents with and without history of cannabis use.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Latent Classes of Adolescent Trauma Exposure, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, and Substance Use Predict Clinical Diagnoses at 12-Month Follow-Up.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
purposeInconsistent reports raise the question of the extent to which poor adult outcomes are associated with adolescent polysubstance use (PSU: alcohol, marijuana, other illicit drugs) above and beyond earlier risk factors.
methodsEarly adulthood substance-related and psychosocial outcomes were examined in association with age 13 to 17 developmental patterns of PSU in boys from urban, low SES neighborhoods (N = 926). Three classes obtained by latent growth modeling described low/non-users (N = 565, 61.0%), lower risk PSU (later onset, occasional use, 2 ≤ substances; N = 223, 24.1%), and higher risk PSU (earlier onset, frequent use, 3 ≥ substances; N = 138, 14.9%). Preadolescent individual, familial and social predictors of adolescent PSU patterns were used as covariates.
resultsAdolescent PSU contributed to both age-24 substance-related outcomes (frequency of alcohol, drug use, and getting drunk, risky behaviors under influence, and use-related problems) and psychosocial outcomes (no high school diploma, professional or financial strain, ASP symptoms, criminal record) over and above preadolescent risk factors. Controlling for preadolescent risk factors, adolescent PSU made a more important contribution to adult substance use outcomes (increasing the risk by about 110%) than to psychosocial outcomes (16.8% risk increase). PSU classes showed poorer adjustment for all age-24 substance use, and for various psychosocial outcomes than low/non-users. Higher risk polysubstance users also reported poorer outcomes than their lower risk peers for most substance use outcomes, and for professional or financial strain and criminal record.
conclusionFindings highlight the contribution of adolescent PSU in a dose-response fashion, over and above preadolescent risk factors, on both homotypic and heterotypic outcomes in early adulthood.
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