Addictive behaviors
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Addictive behaviors · Aug 2019
Correlates of cigarette and alternative tobacco product use among young tobacco users experiencing homelessness.
Most young people experiencing homelessness smoke cigarettes, but little is known about use of alternative tobacco products (ATPs) such as e-cigarettes or other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and little cigars/cigarillos (LCCs). This study examines past month use and correlates of cigarettes and ATP among young tobacco users experiencing homelessness. ⋯ Use of cigarettes and ATPs are both widespread among young homeless tobacco users, suggesting that efforts to reduce tobacco use in this population should have a broad focus that includes a variety of products. The effectiveness of these efforts may be enhanced by addressing their considerable exposure to other tobacco users, as well as their perceptions of certain products as being less harmful or more cost-effective options than regular cigarettes.
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Addictive behaviors · Aug 2019
Emotion dysregulation as an explanatory factor in the relation between negative affectivity and non-medical use of opioid in a diverse young adult sample.
The non-medical use of prescription opioids is an area of increasing public health concern, particularly among young college-age adults (ages 18-25) who demonstrate an increased risk of opioid-related problems. Negative mood states are consistently associated with more severe non-medical use of opioid. Emotion dysregulation defined an impaired ability to understand, evaluate, and differentiate one's emotions, and access strategies to regulate them could play an explanatory role in this association. ⋯ Results indicated that emotion dysregulation explained, in part, the association between negative affectivity and non-medical use of opioid-related variables, including self-reported addiction to opioids, denial of opioid prescription by a healthcare provider, and family concerns about participant's opioid use. These indirect effects were comparable across individuals with and without pain. Findings suggest that targeting emotion dysregulation may be one therapeutic strategy to reduce non-medical use of opioid in the context of negative affectivity among college students.