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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nakawaki, Brandon
• Crano, William

Titel

Patterns of Substance Use, Delinquency, and Risk Factors Among Adolescent Inhalant Users

Ist Teil von

• Substance use & misuse, 2015-01, Vol.50 (1), p.114-122

Ort / Verlag

New York: Informa Healthcare

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Background: Despite insidious effects, use of inhalant substances by adolescents remains an understudied phenomenon. Objective: This research was designed to identify patterns of past year substance use and delinquency among adolescent inhalant users. Method: The study used a sample of adolescent inhalant users (ages ranged from 12-17 years, n = 7,476) taken from a pooled sample of the 2002 through 2012 National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Three-step latent class analyses were conducted with past year substance use and delinquency behaviors as class indicators. Demographic and social covariates were included in the analyses. Results: Analyses yielded a six-class solution comprised of classes of users characterized by low substance use/low delinquency, high substance use/low delinquency, low substance use/fighting, cigarettes/alcohol/marijuana, high substance use/high delinquency, and cigarettes/alcohol/ marijuana/opioids/moderate delinquency. Conclusions: Findings provide insight into the taxonomy of adolescent inhalant user heterogeneity, and may inform future efforts at detection and prevention of inhalant use by suggesting warning signs of co-occurring externalizing behaviors and possible indications of underlying internalized issues.