Cannabis Use and Disorder From Childhood to Adulthood in a Longitudinal Community Sample With American Indians.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Recent changes in DSM criteria require new documentation of the prevalence and developmental sequences of cannabis use disorder (CUD). The goal of this study was to investigate the early course of DSM-5 CUD and its overlap with DSM-IV and consumption constructs in a community-representative sample of American Indians.

Method

Data came from the prospective, longitudinal, population-based Great Smoky Mountains Study in North Carolina (N = 1,420, including 349 American Indians). Cannabis use and disorder were assessed during yearly interviews from 9 to 16 years of age and at 19, 21, 26, and 30 years of age (up to 11 assessments per participant from 1993 through 2015).

Results

By 30 years of age, approximately 70% of participants had used cannabis, 34% had used

SUBMITTER: Copeland WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5564181 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature