ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2023
Generation COVID: Young adult substance use.
Review in Current opinion in psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cannabis use patterns among emerging adults in California who use tobacco: Differences by sexual identity, gender identity, and sex assigned at birth.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Adoption and Perceptions of the College Alcohol Intervention Matrix (CollegeAIM) Among Professionals in a Higher Education Statewide Prevention Coalition.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Young Adult Cannabis, Alcohol, Nicotine, and Nonprescribed Pain Reliever Use in Washington State Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic.AJPM focus · 2025Article
- Representative national survey on drug use during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order in the USA.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Alcohol and Cannabis Perceived Descriptive and Injunctive Norms, Personal Use, and Consequences Among 2-Year College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations between COVID-19 impact and subsequent substance use in adolescents with chronic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Examining enduring effects of COVID-19 on college students' internalizing and externalizing problems: A four-year longitudinal analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Substance Use among Emerging Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review through the Lens of Sustainable Development Goals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Problematic Substance Use among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Young Adults during COVID-19.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Opposing theories posited that young adult substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic would decline due to restricted access and social engagement or increase due to efforts to cope with rising distress, loneliness, and isolation. Peer-reviewed global longitudinal studies found (a) overall declines in commonly used substances in 2020 with some rebounding in 2021; (b) individual differences in this pattern, with declines linked to factors limiting access and increases to pre-existing risk; and (c) under-developed evidence to evaluate increased coping-related use. Given potential links between surging mental health disorders and substance use, further surveillance and wider dissemination of substance use programming is needed, particularly for vulnerable individuals and settings.
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