Publications by authors named "Hugh Farrior"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how childhood familiarity with substances can predict future substance use in adolescence, aiming to develop better prevention strategies.
- Utilizing latent class analysis on a large sample, four distinct groups (Naïve, Common, Uncommon, Rare) were identified based on their knowledge of substances, with the Uncommon and Rare groups showing significantly higher risks of substance use.
- The findings suggest that this familiarity could serve as a valuable screening tool for clinicians to identify adolescents who are at risk for substance use, emphasizing the importance of addressing substance knowledge in early childhood.
Objective: This project aimed to characterize the relationship between physical pain experienced at time of entry to residential treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) and the frequency of treatment dropout. We hypothesized that both endorsement of recent pain and higher magnitude of endorsed pain intensity would be associated with higher dropout rates. We further hypothesized that these effects would be exacerbated among patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSubstance familiarity in middle childhood and adolescent substance use.
Drug Alcohol Depend
September 2023
Background: Childhood familiarity with (knowledge of) substances is a potentially important, currently understudied adolescent substance use risk factor. We aimed to describe changes in childhood familiarity with substances and to test whether baseline familiarity predicts early adolescent substance use.
Methods: Utilizing the Substance Use Module of the longitudinal cohort study, Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD; US youth aged 9-10 years followed for 10 years) through Data Release 4 (n=7896; individuals who completed all six assessments in the first three years), we conducted longitudinal mixed models and survival analyses to describe changes in familiarity and to determine the adjusted odds of substance use by age 13 based on number of familiar substances at baseline.