Marijuana use and service utilization among adolescents 7 years post substance use treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In an environment of increasingly liberal attitudes towards marijuana use and legalization, little is known about long-term trajectories of marijuana use among clinical samples of adolescents, and how these trajectories relate to health services utilization over time.

Methods

Latent growth curve analysis was used to identify distinct trajectories of marijuana use in a clinical sample of adolescents (N=391) over 7 years post substance use treatment in an integrated health system. We examined psychiatric problems and polysubstance use associated with the identified trajectory groups using general linear models. Nonlinear mixed-effects logistic regressions were used to examine associations between health services use and the trajectory groups.

Results

We ident

SUBMITTER: Campbell CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5297892 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature