Titre : | New psychoactives within polydrug use trajectories - Evidence from a mixed-method longitudinal study (2021) |
Auteurs : | K. HIGGINS ; N. O'NEILL ; L. O'HARA ; J. A. JORDAN ; M. McCANN ; T. O'NEILL ; M. CLARKE ; T. O'NEILL ; G. KELLY ; A. CAMPBELL |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Addiction (Vol.116, n°9, September 2021) |
Article en page(s) : | 2454-2462 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique IRLANDE DU NORDThésaurus mots-clés DROGUES DE SYNTHESE ; POLYCONSOMMATION ; TRAJECTOIRE ; ETUDE LONGITUDINALE ; CLASSIFICATION ; MEPHEDRONE ; CANNABINOIDES ; ALCOOL ; TABAC |
Résumé : |
AIMS: To provide public health-related research evidence on types and usage patterns of new psychoactive substances (NPS), developmental pathways into NPS and decision-making factors for, and associated harms of, NPS use.
DESIGN: Three-phase mixed-methods design, including a latent class analysis (LCA) of the longitudinal Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS), a narrative analysis of interviews with NPS users and a three-step approach manual method modelling using regressions to reveal classes of substance use and their associated predictors and outcomes. SETTING: Northern Ireland. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 2039 people who responded to the questions on 'ever use' of the drug variables included at wave 7 (aged 21 years) of the BYDS. Eighty-four narrative interviews with NPS users. MEASUREMENTS: Categories of drug use identified by LCA. Predictors and outcomes included measures of family, partners, peers, substance use, school, delinquency and mental health. FINDINGS: A four-class solution provided the best fit for the data: alcohol; alcohol and tobacco; alcohol, tobacco and cannabis; and polydrug (the latter including NPS). The qualitative analysis yielded a taxonomy that distinguished how NPS operate within a wider range of drug repertoires from experimental to problematic. CONCLUSIONS: In Northern Ireland, new psychoactive substances appear to be a feature of broader polydrug use rather than a standalone class of drug use. |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs ; Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Refs biblio. : | 21 |
Affiliation : | Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK |
Cote : | Abonnement |
Lien : | https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15422 |
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