{"id":30565,"date":"2013-04-21T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30565"},"modified":"2014-01-15T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T07:47:57","slug":"age-of-first-cigarette-alcohol-and-marijuana-use-among-u-s-biracialethnic-youth-a-population-based-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30565","title":{"rendered":"Age of First Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use Among U.S. Biracial\/Ethnic Youth: A Population-Based Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.addbeh.2013.04.005\" target=\"_blank\">Age of First Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use Among U.S. Biracial\/Ethnic Youth: A Population-Based Study<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/03064603\" target=\"_blank\">Addictive Behaviors<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/03064603\/38\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 38, Issue 9<\/a>, September 2013<br \/>\npages 2450\u20132454<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.addbeh.2013.04.005\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.addbeh.2013.04.005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssw.unc.edu\/about\/faculty\/clark\" target=\"_blank\">Trenette T. Clark<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Social Work<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/jaddams\/college\/faculty_staff\/faculty\/doyle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Otima Doyle<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Social Work<br \/>\n<em>University of Illinois, Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Clincy<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Highlights<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We found an intermediate biracial phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li>White-American Indian youth start smoking cigarettes earlier than all groups.<\/li>\n<li>White-Asian youth begin smoking marijuana and drinking at earlier ages than Whites.<\/li>\n<li>White-Asian youth engaged in all substances at earlier ages than Asian youth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This study examines age of first cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among self-identified biracial youth, using data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Longitudinal_Study_of_Adolescent_Health\" target=\"_blank\">National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health<\/a> (Add Health). We found an intermediate biracial phenomenon in which some biracial youth initiate substance use at ages that fall between the initiation ages of their 2 corresponding monoracial groups. When controlling for the covariates, <strong>our findings show White-Asian biracial youth begin smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol at earlier ages than Whites and engaging in all forms of substance use at earlier ages than Asian youth.<\/strong> Results indicate White-American Indian youth start smoking cigarettes at earlier ages than all biracial and monoracial groups. Our findings underscore the need for future research to examine substance-use initiation and progression among biracial\/ethnic youth.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306460313001093\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age of First Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use Among U.S. Biracial\/Ethnic Youth: A Population-Based Study Addictive Behaviors Volume 38, Issue 9, September 2013 pages 2450\u20132454 DOI: 10.1016\/j.addbeh.2013.04.005 Trenette T. Clark, Associate Professor of Social Work University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Otima Doyle, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Chicago Amanda Clincy University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,4481,20],"tags":[14482,14486,14485,14484,14483],"class_list":["post-30565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-usa","tag-addictive-behaviors","tag-amanda-clincy","tag-otima-doyle","tag-trenette-clark","tag-trenette-t-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}