The effect of legal mandates on substance use disorder treatment completion among older adults.

This study seeks to determine the relationship between referral type (legally mandated versus non-mandated) and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment completion among older adults and by primary substance used. We used data from the Treatment Episode Data Set - Discharges (TEDS-D) from 2011. Using data for persons age 55 and over ( = 104,747), we used propensity score matching (PSM) to address selection bias and attenuate the likelihood of a type I error.

Adolescent Neighborhood Environments and Latino Intraethnic Disparities in Trajectories of Serious Violent Behaviors.

The purpose of this study was to describe the longitudinal trajectories of risk for serious violent behaviors among Latinos of different ancestry in the United States and to examine the impact of neighborhood perceptions, socioeconomic status (SES), and racial/ethnic and immigrant concentration during adolescence in long-term risk. Guided by sociological theories and life-course frameworks, we utilized data from Mexican ( = 755), Cuban ( = 182), Puerto Rican ( = 219), and other Latino ( = 289) respondents who participated in all waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Stratified, weighted, multilevel growth curve models were conducted in Stata 14 MP to determine unadjusted and adjusted trajectories between 13 and 32 years of age for each ancestry group by sex.