TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - Exposure to potentially lethal weapons and drugs among U.S. adolescents with recent depressive symptoms or suicidality in the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey JO - Psychiatry research A1 - Hudgins, Joel A1 - Mannix, Cordelia A1 - Mannix, Rebekah SP - e115827 EP - e115827 VL - 334 IS - N2 - The scope of lethal means exposure (i.e. guns, intravenous drugs, prescription drugs) relative to depressive symptoms and suicidality in adolescents is not well described. Using the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES), we found lethal means exposure increased in a dose dependent manner with increasing depressive symptoms, adjusting for age, sex, race, and ethnicity. Adolescent males were more than 6 times more likely to have exposure to guns and intravenous drugs compared to adolescent females.

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LA - en SN - 0165-1781 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115827 ID - ref1 ER -