This review examines the evidence for longitudinal predictors of substance use and abuse
in emerging adulthood. Nationally representative data from the 2007 National Survey on …

Epidemiological studies of substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs) have
provided an abundance of data on the patterns of substance use in nationally representative …

Importance Mortality among people with opioid dependence is higher than that of the
general population. Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is an effective treatment for opioid …

There is a longstanding association between substance-use disorders (SUDs) and the
psychological construct of impulsivity. In the first section of this review, personality and …

There are well‐established links between impulsivity and alcohol use in humans and other
model organisms; however, the etiological nature of these associations remains unclear …

Altered reactivity to stress, either in the direction of exaggerated reactivity or diminished
reactivity, may signal a dysregulation of systems intended to maintain homeostasis and a …

The goal of this study was to develop a multi-dimensional model that might explain suicide
ideation among college students. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 1,249 first …

Most substance abusers simultaneously use and abuse more than one substance, even
when there is a clear drug of choice. This pattern creates a great challenge in relating …

One of the primary personality dimensions or traits that has consistently been linked to
substance abuse is impulsivity. However, impulsivity is not a homogenous construct and …

A principal feature of drug addiction is a reduced ability to regulate control over the desire to
procure drugs regardless of the risks involved. Traditional models implicated the neural …