Behavioral economic interactions between cannabis and alcohol purchasing: Associations with disordered use.

ABSTRACT: As cannabis policy changes, there is an urgent need to understand interactions between cannabis and alcohol couse. An online sample of 711 adult past-month cannabis and alcohol users completed both single-item hypothetical purchasing tasks for cannabis and alcohol and cross-commodity purchasing tasks assessing adjusting-price cannabis with concurrently available, fixed-price alcohol, and vice versa. Participants provided information about cannabis and alcohol use patterns, and completed the Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Tests (AUDIT and CUDIT, respectively). Group data showed that cannabis and alcohol served as complements (as the price of the adjusting-price commodity increased, consumption of both commodities decreased). However, individual data showed substantial vari

SUBMITTER: Dolan SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8209692 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature