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SUBMITTER: Mednick SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2841645 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mednick Sara C SC Christakis Nicholas A NA Fowler James H JH
PloS one 20100319 3
Troubled sleep is a commonly cited consequence of adolescent drug use, but it has rarely been studied as a cause. Nor have there been any studies of the extent to which sleep behavior can spread in social networks from person to person to person. Here we map the social networks of 8,349 adolescents in order to study how sleep behavior spreads, how drug use behavior spreads, and how a friend's sleep behavior influences one's own drug use. We find clusters of poor sleep behavior and drug use that ...[more]