Age of Alcohol Initiation Matters: Examining Gender Differences in the Recency and Frequency of Alcohol Use Across Adolescence Using a Sample of Impoverished Minority Adolescents

Tomek, Sara; Bolland, Kathleen A.; Bolland, John M.; Hooper, Lisa M.; Church, Wesley T.; Bolland, Anneliese C.

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“…Several recent studies have used prospective data to examine the relation between early substance use initiation and later progression patterns. Analyses have identified escalated alcohol use frequency among early initiators (Bolland et al, 2016), as well as gender (Tomek et al, 2016) and racial/ethnic (Malone, Northrup, Masyn, Lamis, & Lamont, 2012) differences in alcohol use trajectories following initiation. Behrendt, Wittchen, Höfler, Lieb, and Beesdo (2009) found that later ages of substance use onset were associated with faster transition to SUD, with the exception of DSM–IV cannabis dependence.…”

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Age of initiation and substance use progression: A multivariate latent growth analysis.

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Slutske²,

Wood³

2017

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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An individual’s age at first substance use may be associated with their risk for progression toward heavier substance involvement. To our knowledge, however, no studies within nationally-representative samples have examined the relation between the timing of initiation and progression in use of multiple substances. The present study employed a sample of 9,421 participants from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health who reported on their ages of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis initiation; frequency of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use; and quantity of tobacco and alcohol use across four waves. We fit latent growth models to examine (a) associations between the age of initiation and initial status and rate of change in substance involvement, and (b) the degree to which the timing of first substance use accounted for differences in trajectories. There were significant relations between all ages of initiation and rates of change in tobacco (βs=−0.21 to −0.31, ps<.01) and alcohol use frequency (βs=0.14 to 0.31, ps<.001), age of cannabis initiation and rate of change in tobacco use quantity (β=0.23, p<.01), and age of tobacco initiation and rate of change in cannabis use frequency (β= −0.14, p<.01). After adjusting for age of initiation, significant associations were observed between trajectories for tobacco and alcohol (r=0.43, p<.0001) and alcohol and cannabis (r=0.20, p<.05). Results highlight differences in within- and cross-substance relations between the age of initiation and rate of change in use across substances. They suggest that differences in substance use trajectories are partly accounted for by age at first use.

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Age of initiation and substance use progression: A multivariate latent growth analysis.

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Slutske²,

Wood³

2017

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…This population is of particular interest given the commonly discussed gaps in opportunities evidenced among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as the importance of early alcohol initiation on negative outcomes (CDC, 2010; Donovan & Molina, 2011; Griffin et al, 2010; Swahn et al, 2010; Windle & Windle, 2012). As opposed to treating alcohol initiation as a dichotomous variable in our analysis, we will allow the age of alcohol initiation to factor into the model, therefore concurrently analyzing both the short-term and the long-term effects of alcohol initiation at all ages (Singer & Willett, 2003; Tomek et al, 2019). We hypothesize that earlier initiation will indeed have a negative effect on school outcomes.…”

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The Longitudinal Effects of Age of Alcohol Initiation on School Outcomes

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Previous research has demonstrated initiation of alcohol during adolescence has a negative effect on both school attendance and missed instruction due to behavior. Utilizing longitudinal data comprised of primarily Black American youth between ages 11 and 18 ( N = 931), both the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol initiation were analyzed using a piecewise growth curve model. Results indicated that alcohol initiation negatively impacted school absences, but this effect was unique and independent of the age at which alcohol was initiated. The number of days of missed instruction due to school violations was also negatively impacted, but the effect was found to be more detrimental to those youth initiating alcohol at a younger age. By age 18, early alcohol initiators had a significantly greater number of days of missed instruction due to school violations, yet did not differ in the number of school absences. Implications of the results are discussed.

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“…Future studies should explore how societal socioeconomic conditions could affect drinking trajectories. Lastly, since the ED-dependence association might differ between genders (Tomek et al, 2016), we characterized the association by gender. The results were similar for males, but not for females.…”

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“…Additionally, although alcohol use among females has increased over time and ED has grown among them, evidence regarding the link between ED and later trajectories of alcohol use and related problems between genders has also been contradictory (Tomek et al, 2016).…”

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“…Given that countries' socioeconomic level could confound these associations (varying levels of early dependence detection or access to treatment, for instance), we will adjust by countries' socioeconomic level. Lastly, since the ED-dependence association might differ between genders (Tomek et al, 2016), we will characterize the association by gender.…”

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The Association Between Early Drinking and Dependence Varies by Drinking Context

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Evidence regarding the association between early drinking (ED) and later dependence is controversial. It has been alternately hypothesized that ED either plays a causal role in the development of dependence or that it is an early marker of increased psychosocial vulnerabilities. Despite a clear rationale for delaying youth consumption, it is important to discern this relationship. However, most epidemiological evidence comes from individual studies and high-income countries. If there is a causal link between ED and dependence, an association at the aggregate level would be expected. Furthermore, if the link is due to biological mechanisms, the association should be rather invariable regardless of the drinking context, while if the association is due to psychosocial factors, a wider variability is to be expected. We explored whether the association between ED and dependence varied across countries clustered by their shared contextual drinking characteristics. We used data from 169 countries from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health of the World Health Organization: ED, alcohol dependence, heavy episodic drinking (HED), actual drinkers, and alcohol policy. To cluster countries by their shared drinking characteristics (prevalences of HED and actual drinkers, and alcohol policy), we used, sequentially, two multivariate data reduction techniques: a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and a hierarchic classification. To estimate the association between ED and alcohol dependence, beta regressions were performed, and then adjusted by country income-level and repeated by gender. The results indicated four country clusters: primarily abstainers (class 1), low drinking countries (class 2), high drinking countries (class 3), and very high drinking countries (class 4). Positive relationships between ED and alcohol dependence were found for all the countries in the world and for those in classes 1 and 2. No significant relationships were found for class 3 or class 4. These results were similar for males, but not for females, where no significant relationships were found after adjusting for income level. The association between ED and dependence varies according to the drinking context. Our findings either suggest that the ED-dependence association may be due to individual or environmental vulnerabilities that promote consumption outside cultural norms or that, if there is a causal link between ED and dependence, it is strongly moderated by psychosocial characteristics.

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Age of Alcohol Initiation Matters: Examining Gender Differences in the Recency and Frequency of Alcohol Use Across Adolescence Using a Sample of Impoverished Minority Adolescents

Cited by 8 publications

References 69 publications

Age of initiation and substance use progression: A multivariate latent growth analysis.

Age of initiation and substance use progression: A multivariate latent growth analysis.

The Longitudinal Effects of Age of Alcohol Initiation on School Outcomes

The Association Between Early Drinking and Dependence Varies by Drinking Context

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