Background: Substance use in adolescence is associated with multiple negative outcomes.
Lesbian, gay, or bisexual or transgender or nonbinary (TNB) youth, and those who question …

Purpose Despite well-established substance use disparities between sexual and gender
minority adolescents and their heterosexual, cisgender peers, there remain questions about …

Background Health sciences researchers are beginning to understand the differing
experiences and health risks among sexual minority subgroups (ie, those who describe …

Background: Adolescence is a common time for experimentation with substance use and the
emergence of sex differences in substance use patterns. Although similar in early …

Background Relative to heterosexual youth, sexual minority youth exhibit increased
substance use. Risk for polysubstance use, which magnifies drug-related harms, remains …

Purpose: We examined how substance use differed as a function of sex assigned at birth
and gender identity (cisgender, transgender, or nonbinary/genderqueer) by type of …

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents report higher rates of substance use and
misuse compared with their heterosexual and cisgender peers [1, 2]. These disparities span …

Purpose: Adolescent drug use remains a significant public health concern. Sexual minority
youth (SMY) are at elevated risk for illicit drug use compared with their heterosexual peers …

Introduction Exposure to violence victimization may help explain disparities of substance
use among gender-nonconforming youth (ie, those whose gender expression differs from …

Purpose Studies have demonstrated a disparity in sexual minority adolescents and
substance use, possibly due to factors contributing to minority stress. The objective of this …