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Testing teens for tobacco, vaping, and marijuana corroborates self‐reports
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30411
Subject(s) - nicotine , biomarker , tobacco use , psychology , environmental health , medicine , psychiatry , biology , population , biochemistry
When teens self‐report their tobacco, vaping, and marijuana use, the results correlate with urine biomarkers, researchers have found. There is no objective biomarker data in this area, so researchers wanted to make this comparison, and it turns out that just asking the question will yield accurate results. However, in the case of nicotine, many subjects were not aware they had nicotine in their systems. In addition, the more frequent the vaping and pod use was, the higher the level of the biomarker.