Healio (7/30, Mille) reports, “Questions that assessed frequency of use of alcohol, cannabis and other illicit drugs correctly determined which adolescents had substance use disorders,” researchers concluded after pooling “survey data from 169,986 respondents between 12 and 20 years of age to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health from a six-year period, focusing on tobacco use in the past month and cannabis, alcohol and other illicit drug use in the past year.” The findings were published in the July issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Related Links:
— “Drug use within 3 days sufficient to identify substance abuse disorder in younger teens, “Janel Miller, Healio, July 30, 2019