Nicola Black, Firouzeh Noghrehchi, Wing See Yuen, Alexandra Aiken, Philip J Clare, Gary Chan, Kypros Kypri, Nyanda McBride, Raimondo Bruno, Tim Slade, Veronica Boland, Richard Mattick, Amy Peacock
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Adolescent polysubstance use has been associated with adverse social and health outcomes. Our aim was to measure rates and transitions to polysubstance use during adolescence and identify factors associated with initiation and discontinuation of polysubstance use. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. Multistate Markov modelling was used to estimate rates and identify correlates of transitions between substance use states. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Adolescent-parent dyads (n = 1927; adolescents in grade 7, age ≈13 years) were recruited from Australian schools during 2010/11 (Wave 1)...
March 18, 2024: Addiction