Use and co-use of alcohol and cannabis following physical pain in the daily life of community adults engaged in regular substance use.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Alcohol and cannabis are often perceived as pain-relieving. However, minimal work has examined whether people use and co-use these substances following pain in daily life.

Method

Forty-six adults reporting weekly use of alcohol and/or cannabis completed a 60-day ecological momentary assessment protocol, answering at least four daily reports on their alcohol and cannabis use and pain (n_assessments = 10,769 over 2,656 days). We examined whether self-reported pain so far that day (cumulative-average pain) was associated with subsequent alcohol and cannabis use and same-occasion co-use. Models also addressed whether associations differed for initiating versus continuing a use episode. Hypotheses were preregistered.

Results

A multinomial multile

SUBMITTER: Carpenter RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11324861 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature