In 2017–2019, the March of Dimes convened a workgroup with biomedical, clinical, and
epidemiologic expertise to review knowledge of the causes of the persistent Black-White …

Objective Little is known about the consequences of tobacco smoking stigma on smokers
and how smokers may internalize smoking-related stigma. This review summarizes existing …

Despite the salience of the social media context to psychosocial development, little is known
about social media use patterns and how they relate to psychological and social functioning …

Background Although research has documented age differences in substance use, less is
known about how prevalence of substance use disorders (SUDs) vary across age and differ …

There are important sex differences in the brain that seem to arise from biology as well as
psychosocial influences. Sex differences in several aspects of human behavior and …

Objective: This study analyzes whether parental strictness, which is shared by authoritative
parenting (strictness and warmth) and authoritarian parenting (strictness without warmth) …

Young men who have sex with men (YMSM) experience minority stressors that impact their
mental health, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors. Internalized homophobia (IH) and …

Introduction We assessed change in substance use from before to during the COVID-19
pandemic in young adults and identified factors associated with initiation/increase in use …

Aims We tested race/ethnic differences in alcohol and marijuana (AM) trajectories
(comprising an intercept term, reflecting overall probability of use, and a slope term …

Objective: Research suggests striking disparities in alcohol use, problems, and treatment
across racial/ethnic groups in the United States. However, research on alcohol-related …