Background Young people are disproportionately more likely than other age groups to use
substances. The rise in substance use and related harms, including overdose, during the …

Background and aims Cannabis, tobacco and alcohol use are prevalent among youth in the
United States and may be risk factors for opioid use. The current study aimed at investigating …

Background Although much of the attention surrounding the opioid epidemic has focused on
rural and suburban Whites and prescription opioids, heroin overdoses among urban Blacks …

Background The opioid epidemic is a public health emergency in the US. Alcohol is the most
widely used addictive substance among all age groups; however, the contribution of …

Initiation of non-medical prescription opioid use (NMPO) during early adolescence is tightly
linked to heroin and other drug use disorders and related sequelae in later adolescence and …

Background Research on adolescent heroin use has focused on national surveillance,
access, prevalence of use, and overdose deaths, however, to our knowledge, no study has …

Background Injection drug use among legal minors is under-researched. Although the
population may be small in absolute terms, treatment needs may be greater than for those …

Persons who inject drugs (PWID) and exchange sex face disproportionate HIV rates. We
assessed prevalence of exchange sex (receiving money/drugs for sex from≥ 1 male partner …

Background Adolescent drug use has long term health consequences, like substance use
disorders and psychiatric illnesses. Proximal health risks, especially for overdose, are …

The effect of coffee consumption on functional disability has been scarcely investigated.
Thus, this study aimed to examine the association between coffee consumption and …