TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Trends in cannabis use among justice-involved youth in the United States, 2002-2017
JO  - American journal of drug and alcohol abuse encompassing all addictive disorders
A1  - Vaughn, Michael G.
A1  - AbiNader, Millan Alexander
A1  - Salas-Wright, Christopher P.
A1  - Holzer, Katherine
A1  - Oh, Sehun
A1  - Chang, Yeongjin
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - BACKGROUND: Little is known regarding trends in cannabis use among justice-involved youth. We hypothesize that cannabis use will be higher over time among justice-involved youth who, on average, are more likely to be exposed to and seek out cannabis.     OBJECTIVES: The present study compares trends in cannabis use among justice-involved youth (past year) with youth in the general population age 12-17 who have not been arrested in the past year.     METHODS: Public-use data as part of the 2002-2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), which does not include state-level identifiers, was used. Males constitute 51% of the total sample. Among justice-involved youth, 66.4% were males. We employed logistic regression analyses with survey year as an independent variable and past-year cannabis use as the dependent variable. A series of logistic regressions examined the association between cannabis use and psychosocial and behavioral factors.     RESULTS: The prevalence of past-year cannabis use among justice-involved youth (3.09% of the sample) steadily increased from 54% in 2002 to 58% in 2017 (AOR = 1.018, 95% CI = 1.004-1.034), while the concurrent prevalence of cannabis use among youth with no past year arrests decreased from a high of 14% in 2002 to 12% in 2017 (AOR = 0.993, 95% CI = 0.990-0.997).     CONCLUSION: Study findings suggest that cannabis use is increasing among justice-involved youth.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0095-2990
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2020.1732398
ID  - ref1
ER  -