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DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
Volume 132, Issue 1-2, Pages 165-171Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.01.024
Keywords
Coping and emotion regulation; Prescription and illicit drug use; Latent profile analysis; High-risk youth
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- National Institute of Drug Use [DA021299]
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Background: Deficits in the ability to organize, integrate, and modulate emotions, thoughts, and behaviors when dealing with stress have been found to be related to the onset and escalation of substance use among adolescents and young adults. However, limited research has focused on understanding how coping and emotion regulation tendencies might be associated with different patterns of prescription and illicit drug use, particularly among high-risk young adults who may already face additional challenges relative to lower-risk populations. Methods: Young adults aged 16-25 years who had misused prescription drugs within the past 90 days were interviewed in Los Angeles and New York. The current study utilized latent profile analysis to empirically derive coping and emotion regulation typologies/profiles that are then used to predict different patterns of substance use (N = 560). Results: Four latent classes/groups were identified: (1) suppressors, (2) others-reliant copers, (3) self-reliant copers and (4) active copers. Distinct patterns of prescription and illicit drug misuse were found among different coping/emotion regulation profiles, including differences in age of initiation of opiates, tranquilizers, and illicit drugs, recent injection drug use, substance use-related problems, and past 90-day use of tranquilizers, heroin, and cocaine. Specifically, suppressors and others-reliant capers evidenced more problematic patterns of substance use compared to active copers. Conclusion: This is among the first studies to show how coping and emotion regulation profiles predict distinct patterns of substance use. Results provide the groundwork for additional investigations that could have significant prevention and clinical implications for substance-using high-risk young adults. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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