Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States.
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, United States.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Feb 1;219:108469. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108469. Epub 2020 Dec 21.
Previous research links cigarette use and marijuana use in adolescence with the use of other illicit substances. Limited research, however, has explored whether vaping nicotine and marijuana, along with using these substances through multiple modes of delivery (traditional cigarette/marijuana use and vaping) is associated with the use of other illicit substances in adolescence.
This study addresses this gap in the literature by employing negative binomial regression to examine the relationships between three categories of nicotine users (traditional cigarettes only, nicotine vaping only, and dual mode nicotine use), three categories of marijuana users (traditional marijuana use only, marijuana vaping only, and dual mode marijuana use), and the use of other illicit substances in a sample of Florida middle school and high school students.
Our findings reveal that nicotine vaping and dual mode use of both nicotine and marijuana are associated with the use of a greater variety of illicit substances compared to non-users.
In conclusion, our findings suggest that dual mode use of nicotine and marijuana are associated with greater likelihood of using other illicit substances. The implications of these findings for future research are discussed.
先前的研究表明，青少年时期吸烟和吸食大麻与使用其他非法物质有关。然而，有限的研究探讨了吸食尼古丁和大麻，以及通过多种途径（传统香烟/大麻使用和蒸气吸入）使用这些物质是否与青少年时期使用其他非法物质有关。
本研究通过使用负二项回归来检验尼古丁使用者的三个类别（仅传统香烟、仅尼古丁蒸气吸入、以及双重模式尼古丁使用）、大麻使用者的三个类别（仅传统大麻使用、仅大麻蒸气吸入、以及双重模式大麻使用），以及佛罗里达州中学和高中生样本中其他非法物质使用之间的关系，以此填补了文献中的空白。
我们的发现表明，与非使用者相比，尼古丁蒸气吸入和尼古丁与大麻的双重使用与使用更多种类的非法物质有关。
总之，我们的研究结果表明，尼古丁和大麻的双重使用与更有可能使用其他非法物质有关。这些研究结果对未来的研究具有重要意义。
