Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use in daily life: Implications for level of use, subjective intoxication, and positive and negative consequences.

ABSTRACT: Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana (SAM) use is prevalent among young adult drinkers and associated with increased risk for harms. Less understood about SAM use is whether increased risk is incurred on SAM use occasions relative to occasions in which individuals used only 1 substance. From a sample of young adult SAM users, we compared occasions in which individuals simultaneously used alcohol and marijuana so that the effects overlapped ("SAM days"), occasions involving only alcohol ("alcohol days"), and occasions involving only marijuana ("marijuana days") on level of use, level of subjective intoxication, and negative and positive consequences. Eligible participants (N = 154; 57.8% female, 72.7% non-Hispanic/Latinx White) were 18-25 years old, reported past-month SAM use, and rep

SUBMITTER: Linden-Carmichael AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7148190 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature