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Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Marijuana Before Age 16 Associated with Higher Rates of Substance Use Dependence

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Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, and Marijuana Before Age 16 Associated with Higher Rates of Substance Use Dependence [1]
Article Date: 
Monday, February 24, 2014

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  • alcohol [2]
  • addiction [3]

Furthermore, early users of all three substances were more than twice as likely to meet the criteria for marijuana dependence (21% vs. 8%).

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Source URL: http://www.rethinkpot.org/use-alcohol-cigarettes-and-marijuana-age-16-associated-higher-rates-substance-use-dependence

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[1] http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/cesarfax/vol23/23-07.pdf
[2] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/alcohol
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/addiction