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Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

2021

Substance use

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Temporal Trends In Smoking And Nicotine Dependence In Relation To Co-Occurring Substance Use In The United States, 2005-2016, Yun Wang, Ying Liu, Mary Waldron, Alexandra N. Houston-Ludlam, Vivia V. Mccutcheon, Michael T. Lynskey, Pamela A. F. Madden, Kathleen K. Bucholz, Andrew C. Heath, Min Lian Jul 2021

Temporal Trends In Smoking And Nicotine Dependence In Relation To Co-Occurring Substance Use In The United States, 2005-2016, Yun Wang, Ying Liu, Mary Waldron, Alexandra N. Houston-Ludlam, Vivia V. Mccutcheon, Michael T. Lynskey, Pamela A. F. Madden, Kathleen K. Bucholz, Andrew C. Heath, Min Lian

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Background
Despite an overall decline in tobacco use in the United States, secular trends of smoking and nicotine dependence with co-occurring substance use are not well characterized.

Methods
We examined self-reported tobacco and other substance use in 22,245 participants age 21–59 in the United States from six waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Using Joinpoint regression, we assessed secular trends of smoking and nicotine dependence as a function of co-occurring use of alcohol, prescription opioids, marijuana/hashish, cocaine/heroin/methamphetamine, or other injection drug use. Multivariable logistic regressions were fitted to identify the potential risk factors.

Results
During 2005–2016, …