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Pandemic did not lead to decrease in alcohol and marijuana use by youth
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33134
Subject(s) - pandemic , aside , lead (geology) , covid-19 , alcohol , psychology , environmental health , medicine , chemistry , art , biology , paleontology , biochemistry , literature , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Despite seeing a historic decline in youths' perceived availability of alcohol and marijuana during last year's peak of COVID‐19 restrictions, use of these substances did not show a corresponding drop, newly released data indicates. The study's lead author told ADAW that the findings were so surprising to him that he had to set them aside for a time to try to process what he was seeing.