TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - Experiencing violence and other predictors of within-person same-day use of multiple substances in youth: a longitudinal study in emergency settings JO - American journal of drug and alcohol abuse encompassing all addictive disorders A1 - Lyons, Vivian H. A1 - Myers, Matthew G. A1 - Cunningham, Rebecca M. A1 - Zimmerman, Marc A. A1 - Carter, Patrick M. A1 - Walton, Maureen A. A1 - Goldstick, Jason SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - BACKGROUND: Although experiencing violence is a risk factor for substance use among youth, its association with same-day use of multiple substances (a form of polysubstance use) and mitigating factors is less well understood.

OBJECTIVES: To identify whether prosocial factors modified the effect of experiencing violence on the frequency of same-day use, and examine gender-specific risk/protective factors for same-day use.

METHODS: We analyzed longitudinal data from a cohort of youth who use drugs aged 14-24 (n = 599; 58% male) presenting to an urban emergency department between 2009-2011 and assessed biannually for two years. Using Poisson-generalized linear models with person-level fixed effects, we estimated within-person associations between self-reported experiencing violence and same-day use and analyzed gender and peer/parent support as effect modifiers. We adjusted for negative peer influence, parental drug and alcohol use, family conflict, anxiety and depression, and age.

RESULTS: Overall, positive parental support corresponded to lower rates of same-day use (rate ratio [RR]:0.93, 95% CI:0.87-0.99) and experiencing violence was associated with higher rates of same-day use (RR:1.25, 95% CI:1.10-1.41). Violence exposure was a risk factor among males (RR:1.42, 95% CI:1.21-1.66), while negative peer influences and parental substance use were risk factors among females (RR:1.63, 95% CI:1.36-1.97 and RR:1.58, 95% CI:1.35-1.83, respectively). Positive peer support reduced the association between violence exposure and same-day use among males (RR:0.69, 95% CI:0.57-0.84, p < .05).

CONCLUSIONS: Tailored interventions may address gender differences in coping with experiencing violence - including interventions that promote parental support among males and reduce influence from parental substance use among females.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 0095-2990 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2024.2307546 ID - ref1 ER -