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SUBMITTER: Sittner KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6021023 | biostudies-other | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence 20151027 4
North American Indigenous communities experience disproportionately high rates of substance use, abuse, and dependence and their accompanying consequences. This study uses group-based trajectory modeling of past-year substance use (alcohol, marijuana, and cigarettes) with a longitudinal sample of Indigenous adolescents from the northern Midwest and Canada (spanning ages 10-18 years). The early-onset trajectory (36.3%) had more adverse psychosocial difficulties at baseline than the mid-onset grou ...[more]