Early onset of cannabis use and alcohol intoxication predicts prescription drug misuse in American Indian and non-American Indian adolescents living on or near reservations.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that for AI and non-AI youth who have some shared living experience, early initiation of cannabis use and alcohol intoxication are risk factors that are similarly related to PDM and that targeting early initiation for both groups of adolescents is critical in prevention of PDM.
PMID: 32673135 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Category: Addiction Authors: Stanley LR, Swaim RC, Smith JK, Conner BT Tags: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse Source Type: research
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