Dubowitz Howard, Thompson Richard, Arria Amelia M, English Diana, Metzger Richard, Kotch Jonathan B
Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Richard H. Calica Center for Innovation in Children and Family Services, Juvenile Protective Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2016 Feb;21(1):16-25. doi: 10.1177/1077559515620853. Epub 2015 Dec 28.
There has been increasing acceptance of marijuana use in the United States in recent years, and rates among adolescents have risen. At the same time, marijuana use during adolescence has been linked to an array of health and social problems. Maltreated children are at risk for marijuana use, but the relationships among characteristics of maltreatment and marijuana use are unclear. In this article, we examine how the type and the extent of maltreatment are related to the level of adolescent marijuana use. Data analyses were conducted on a subsample of maltreated adolescents (n = 702) from the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect project. Approximately half the sample had used marijuana, and maltreatment was associated with its use. Multivariate regression models showed that being male, extensive maltreatment, and peer marijuana use were associated with heavy use of marijuana. These findings suggest the importance of comprehensively assessing children's maltreatment experiences and their peers' drug use to help prevent or address possible marijuana use in these high-risk adolescents.
近年来，美国对大麻使用的接受度不断提高，青少年中的使用率也有所上升。与此同时，青少年时期使用大麻与一系列健康和社会问题有关。受虐待儿童有使用大麻的风险，但虐待特征与大麻使用之间的关系尚不清楚。在本文中，我们研究了虐待的类型和程度与青少年大麻使用水平之间的关系。对来自虐待和忽视儿童纵向研究项目的受虐待青少年子样本（n = 702）进行了数据分析。大约一半的样本使用过大麻，虐待与大麻使用有关。多变量回归模型表明，男性、广泛虐待和同伴使用大麻与大量使用大麻有关。这些发现表明，全面评估儿童的虐待经历及其同伴的药物使用对于帮助预防或解决这些高危青少年中可能出现的大麻使用问题具有重要意义。
