Identifying individual and environmental predictors of opioid and psychostimulant use among adolescents and young adults following outpatient treatment

Original research
by
Davis, Jordan P. et al

Release Date

2022

Geography

USA

Language of Resource

English

Full Text Available

No

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

No

Peer Reviewed

Yes

Findings/Key points

Individual level predictors varied by SUD severity, with age, tobacco use, criminal justice involvement, race, prior SUD treatment, as well as US region, neighborhood poverty, population, and homicide rate around patients’ treatment facility emerging as either protective or risk factors for latency to opioid and/or psychostimulant use.

Design/methods

Looked at risk for opioid and/or psychostimulant use following substance use disorder (SUD) treatment using two complementary machine learning approaches

Keywords

Youth
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