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"Get High With a Little Help From My Friends"Implications of the Historical Covariation of Cannabis Use and Evenings Out
John E. Schulenberg, PhD;
Patrick M. O’Malley, PhD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(2):183-184.
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Kuntsche et al1 are to be applauded. The Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Study is a very ambitious and important ongoing international collaboration that these investigators and their many colleagues have been conducting, one that will continue to offer increased understanding of the epidemiology and etiology of substance use. This repeated cross-sectional (time-lag) project clearly shows the advantages of international collaboration, providing needed insight into robust vs more culture-specific phenomena related to the causes, covariates, and consequences of adolescent drug use. Regarding the current article, this simple but elegant analysis tells an important story: it confirms that marijuana use among adolescents has declined in recent years in several European and North American countries2; it confirms the relatively strong correlation between marijuana use and evenings out, consistent with what has been found based on US national samples3-4; and most importantly, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]AUTHOR INFORMATION
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