“…Moreover, a number of risk factors for substance use in adolescents seem to be gender specific, such as early onset of puberty in girls (Purper-Ouakil & Didillon, 2016), eating and weight loss attitudes (Thomas et al, 2018), perceived racial discrimination (Assari, Mistry, and Caldwell, 2018), subjective body image (Black, Sussman, Unger, Pokhrel, & Sun, 2010), urbanization (Pitel, Geckova, van Dijk, & Reijneveld, 2011), or spirituality (Debnam, Milam, Mullen, Lacey, & Bradshaw, 2018). Similarly, there are modifications in the patterns of substance use between male and female adolescents, mainly in relation to the age of initiation and severity or duration of use (Campbell et al, 2018;Hawes, Trucco, Duperrouzel, Coxe, & Gonzalez, 2018).…”