Risk for initiation of substance use as a function of age of onset of cigarette, alcohol and cannabis use: Findings in a Midwestern female twin cohort

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-128

  Agrawal, Arpana ^a   Grant, Julia D ^a   Waldron, Mary ^a   Duncan, Alexis E ^a   Scherrer, Jeffrey F ^a   Lynskey, Michael T ^a   Madden, Pamela A F ^a   Bucholz, Kathleen K ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drugs; Early onset; Epidemiology; Female; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS; ILLICIT DRUG; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MISSOURI; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TWINS;

EID: 33746835369     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

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