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Peer Network Counseling as Brief Treatment for Urban Adolescent Heavy Cannabis Users. | LitMetric

Peer Network Counseling as Brief Treatment for Urban Adolescent Heavy Cannabis Users.

J Stud Alcohol Drugs

Department of Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

Published: January 2017

Objective: A small body of evidence supports targeting adolescents who are heavy users of cannabis with brief interventions, yet more research is needed to confirm the effectiveness of these studies. We conducted a secondary analysis of our Peer Network Counseling (PNC) study (Mason et al., 2015), focusing on 46 adolescents of the sample of 119 who reported heavy cannabis use at baseline.

Method: Urban adolescents (91% African American) presenting for primary health care were randomized to intervention or control conditions and followed for 6 months. We selected cases (n = 46) to analyze based on heavy cannabis use reported at baseline (≥10 times in past month). The ordinal response data (cannabis use) were modeled using a mixed-effects proportional odds model, including fixed effects for treatment, time, and their interaction, and a subject-level random effect.

Results: In the subsample of adolescents with heavy cannabis use, those assigned to PNC had a 35.9% probability of being abstinent at 6 months, compared with a 13.2% probability in the control condition. Adolescents in the PNC condition had a 16.6% probability of using cannabis 10 or more times per month, compared with a 38.1% probability in the control condition. This differs from results of the full sample (N = 119), where no significant effects on cannabis use were found.

Conclusions: PNC increased the probability of abstinence and reduced heavy cannabis use. These results provide initial support for PNC as a model for brief treatment with non-treatment seeking adolescents who are heavy users of cannabis.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5148746PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2017.78.152DOI Listing

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