Prevalence and correlates of alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the United States: results from the national longitudinal study of adolescent health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited current information on the epidemiology of lifetime alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the United States is available.

Aims

To present detailed information about the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of lifetime alcohol and cannabis use disorders rates in the United States. To examine gender differences in hazard ratios for the onset of alcohol and cannabis dependence.

Methods

Participants in Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N=15,500, age range: 24-32) were interviewed between 2008 and 2009. Participants who exceeded screening thresholds were queried about lifetime DSM-IV alcohol and marijuana abuse and dependence symptoms. Age of substance dependence onset was queried.

Results

Lifetime rates of alc

SUBMITTER: Haberstick BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3963405 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature