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Pandemic sees steady alcohol and marijuana use in youth
Publication year - 2021
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.30617
Subject(s) - aside , pandemic , covid-19 , psychology , alcohol , set (abstract data type) , criminology , medicine , computer science , chemistry , art , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biochemistry , literature , programming language
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 CPU 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.