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Cannabis Use, Addiction Risk and Functional Impairment in Youth Seeking Treatment for Primary Mood or Anxiety Concerns by Elizabeth Osuch; Evelyn Vingilis; Erin Ross; Christeen Forster; Carolyn Summerhurst is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract Cannabis use is common in youth and there is evidence that the co-occurrence of cannabis use (and other substance use) with mental illnesses predicts poorer outcomes, including suicide. The main purposes of this study were to: (i) identify rates of cannabis use and substance use disorder risk, and (ii) predictors for cannabis use among youth seeking help for mood and/or anxiety concerns in a sample population prescreened to exclude primary substance use disorders; and (iii) to determine if there was an association between cannabis use and functional impairment in this sample. We investigated substance use risk as well as hypothesized predictors of cannabis use and functional impairment including demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, trait coping style, age of onset of several risk behaviors, current use of common addictive substances, level of functional impairment, and current psychiatric symptom severity. Results showed that approximately half of the participants were at moderate to high risk for a substance use disorder, and just over 4% appeared to have a primary substance use disorder. They also suggested an association between cannabis use and gender
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- Author
- Elizabeth Osuch; Evelyn Vingilis; Erin Ross; Christeen Forster; Carolyn Summerhurst
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)