Association of cohort and individual substance use with risk of transitioning to drug use, drug use disorder, and remission from disorder: findings from the world mental health surveys

• Published in: JAMA Psychiatry
• Main Authors: Degenhardt, Louisa, Alonso Caballero, Jordi, Kessler, Ronald C., WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Medical Association
• Subjects: Drugs; Abuse; Dependence; Remission; Cohort; Discrete-time survival analysis; World Mental Health survey; Alden; Argentina; Argentino; De la Fuente; Jama; Myers; New Zealand; Nona; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43466; https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0163

Importance: Limited empirical research has examined the extent to which cohort-level prevalence of substance use is associated with the onset of drug use and transitioning into greater involvement with drug use. Objective: To use cross-national data to examine time-space variation in cohort-level dr...