Trends in past-month cannabis use among US adults across a range of disabilities and health conditions, 2015-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

While there is increasing interest in the use of cannabis to manage a range of health-related symptoms, little is known about trends in recent cannabis use with respect to various health conditions.

Methods

We examined data from a US representative sample of noninstitutionalized adults age ≥ 18 from the 2015-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (N = 214,505). We estimated the pooled prevalences followed by linear time trends, overall, and by disability (i.e., difficulty hearing, seeing, thinking, walking, dressing, doing errands) and lifetime (i.e., bronchitis, cancer, diabetes, hepatitis, kidney disease) and current (i.e., asthma, depression, heart disease, hypertension) health condition status using logistic regression. Models with year-by-condition sta

SUBMITTER: Yang KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10842214 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature