Substance use trajectories among emerging adult Black men: Risk factors and consequences.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Young, Black American men experience greater social, legal and economic consequences of substance use compared with White men for comparable levels of consumption. The development of tailored interventions requires prospective information on their substance use patterns, risk factors and consequences. We identified longitudinal substance use profiles and examined their links to childhood adversity, racial discrimination and young adult problem substance use and mental health.

Methods

Emerging adult Black men (n = 504, mean age = 20.26, SD = 1.08) provided fours waves of data between January 2012 and March 2021. We conducted a parallel process latent class growth analysis for three substances to explore conjoint longitudinal use patterns and investigated the risk

SUBMITTER: Kwon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805973 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature