Turning Points in the Lives of Youth of With/Without ADHD: Are They Linked to Changes in Substance Use?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Turning Points in the Lives of Youth of With/Without ADHD: Are They Linked to Changes in Substance Use?

Published:2017-04-19 Issue:9_suppl Volume:22 Page:38S-48S
ISSN:1087-0547
Container-title:Journal of Attention Disorders
language:en
Short-container-title:J Atten Disord

Author:

Jensen Peter S.¹,Yuki Kumi²,Murray Desiree³,Mitchell John T.⁴,Weisner Thomas⁵,Hinshaw Steven⁶,Molina Brooke⁷,Swanson James⁸,Arnold L. Eugene⁹,Hechtman Lily¹⁰,Wells Karen⁴

Affiliation:

1. University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Little Rock, USA

2. Reach Institute, New York, NY, USA

3. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

4. Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

5. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

6. University of California, Berkeley, USA

7. University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

8. University of California, Irvine, USA

9. Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

10. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Objective: This study examines the behavior beliefs, social supports, and turning points in individuals with/without ADHD related to their substance use/abuse (SU/A) decisions. Method: The coded interviews from 60 participants with/without ADHD were compared for their SU/A decisions and precipitants with these decisions among abstainers, persisters, and desisters. Results: ADHD participants reported fewer social advantages to avoid SU/A than non-ADHD participants. Desisters and persisters reported more social advantages of using drugs than abstainers. Persisters reported both more negative and positive psychological/physiological effects of SU/A. ADHD participants reported fewer positive role models in their lives. Non-ADHD patients reported more positive turning points than ADHD participants, regardless of SU/A status. Conclusion: ADHD individuals face challenges in making healthy decisions about SU/A due to lack of positive role models. Reinforcing accurate behavioral beliefs may be important to change behaviors in individuals with SU/A or to prevent SU/A initiation in ADHD individuals.

Funder

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Clinical Psychology,Developmental and Educational Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1087054717700977

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