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Alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana consumption is associated with increased odds of same-day substance co- and tri-use

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Roche, D.J.O., Bujarski, S., Green, R., Hartwell, E.E., Leventhal, A.M., Ray, L.A.·2019·Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background Little is known about event-level patterns of marijuana co- or tri-use with alcohol and tobacco. Thus, the study goal was to examine patterns of same-day alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana co- and tri-use at the individual level in non-treatment-seeking alcohol users.Methods Participants (N = 551) completed an in-person interview for alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use over the previous 30 days, and the event-level substance use patterns of n = 179 participants who reported using each of these substances at least once per month were analyzed.Results The use of alcohol, marijuana, or cigarettes independently increased the probability of subsequent, simultaneous co-use of one of the two remaining substances. The co-use of alcohol with cigarettes and marijuana with cigarettes produced generally additive effects on the odds of same day tri-use of marijuana and alcohol, respectively. Conversely, the co-use of alcohol and marijuana produced sub-additive effects on likelihood of cigarette use. Sex moderated several of the observed patterns of co- and tri-use: the relationship between alcohol or cigarette use predicting marijuana co-use was stronger in men, whereas the observed additive relationships between drug co-use leading to tri-use was stronger in women.Conclusions The presented results may aid in the understanding of how simultaneous co-use of marijuana with alcohol and/or tobacco relates to the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of comorbid and trimorbid substance use disorder. Replication and extension of the results in treatment seeking populations using more fine-grained analysis approaches, e.g. ecological momentary assessment, is needed.

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  • Researchers are increasingly studying effects of drugs in combination to better model human consumption.

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Authors
Roche, D. J. O., Bujarski, S., Green, R., Hartwell, E. E., Leventhal, A. M., & Ray, L. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Philadelphia VA Medical Center (US)
  • University of Southern California (US)
Corresponding author
Ray, L.A.
Venue
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-07
Volume
200
Pages
40-49
ISSN
0376-8716 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2944620836
Cited by
106
References
146
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 1
FWCI
9.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
Keywords
alcohol consumption, tobacco use, cannabis use, substance co-use, sex differences, comorbid substance use disorders
MeSH terms
Ecological Momentary Assessment, Tobacco Smoking, Marijuana Use, Adult, Alcohol Drinking, Female, Humans, Male, Comorbidity, Substance-Related Disorders, Young Adult

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