Adolescent treatment admissions for marijuana following recreational legalization in Colorado and Washington
| Autor: | Jeremy Mennis, Gerald J. Stahler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Washington Marijuana Abuse Colorado Adolescent Poison control Toxicology Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Patient Admission Injury prevention Medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) 030212 general & internal medicine Child Socioeconomic status Cannabis Pharmacology biology business.industry Human factors and ergonomics United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Legislation Drug United States Substance abuse Hospitalization Psychiatry and Mental health Adolescent Behavior Female Marijuana Use business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Demography |
| Zdroj: | Drug and alcohol dependence. 210 |
| ISSN: | 1879-0046 |
| Popis: | Introduction There is concern that recreational marijuana legalization (RML) may lead to increased cannabis use disorder (CUD) among youth due to increased marijuana use. This study investigates whether adolescent substance use disorder treatment admissions for marijuana use increased in Colorado and Washington following RML. Methods Annual data on 2008–2017 treatment admissions for marijuana use from the SAMHSA TEDS-A dataset for adolescents age 12–17 were used to model state treatment admissions trends. Difference-in-differences models were used to investigate whether treatment admissions increased following RML in Colorado/Washington compared to non-RML states, after adjusting for socioeconomic characteristics and treatment availability. Results Over all states in the analysis, the rate of adolescent treatment admissions for marijuana use declined significantly over the study period (β=−3.375, 95 % CI=−4.842, −1.907), with the mean rate falling nearly in half. The decline in admissions rate was greater in Colorado and Washington compared to non-RML states following RML, though this difference was not significant (β=-7.671, 95 % CI=-38.798, 23.456). Conclusion Adolescent treatment admissions for marijuana use did not increase in Colorado and Washington following RML. This may be because youth marijuana use did not increase, CUD did not increase (even if use did increase), or treatment seeking behaviors changed due to shifts in attitudes and perceptions of risk towards marijuana use. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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