Medical marijuana diversion and associated problems in adolescent substance treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence of medical marijuana diversion among adolescents in substance treatment and the relationship between medical marijuana diversion and marijuana attitudes, availability, peer disapproval, frequency of use and substance-related problems are not known.

Methods

80 adolescents (15-19 years) in outpatient substance treatment in Denver, Colorado, completed an anonymous questionnaire developed for the study and the Drug Use Screening Inventory-Revised (DUSI-R). The proportion ever obtaining marijuana from someone with a medical marijuana license was calculated. Those ever obtaining marijuana from someone with a medical marijuana license were compared to those never obtaining medical marijuana with respect to marijuana attitudes, availability, peer disapprova

SUBMITTER: Thurstone C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3178678 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature