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    Interpersonal victimization, posttraumatic stress disorder, and change in adolescent substance use prevalence over a ten-year period.

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    Family Services Research Center, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. mccartm@musc.edu

    Abstract

    Epidemiological studies have identified recent declines in specific types of adolescent substance use. The current study examined whether these declines varied among youth with and without a history of interpersonal victimization or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Data for this study come from two distinct samples of youth (12-17 years of age) participating in the 1995 National Survey of Adolescents (N = 3,906) and the 2005 National Survey of Adolescents-Replication (N = 3,423). Results revealed significant declines in adolescents' use of cigarettes and alcohol between 1995 and 2005; use of marijuana and hard drugs remained stable. Of importance, declines in nonexperimental cigarette use were significantly greater among youth without versus with a history of victimization and declines in alcohol use were significantly greater among youth without versus with a history of PTSD.

    PMID:
    21229450
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC3106225
    Free PMC Article

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