Rates of alcohol use disorder (AUD) have increased in women by 84% over the past ten
years relative to a 35% increase in men. This substantive increase in female drinking is …

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) and alcohol misuse are common among adolescents and young
adults and are associated with significant personal and societal problems. Similarly, major …

Background: Increases in the incidence of psychological distress and alcohol use during the
COVID-19 pandemic have been predicted. Behavioral theories of depression and alcohol …

Depression is a common mental illness and research has focused on late childhood and
adolescence in an attempt to prevent or reduce later psychopathology and/or social …

Alcohol use, particularly binge drinking (BD), is a major public health concern among
adolescents. Recent national data show that the gender gap in alcohol use is lessening, and …

Background Adolescence marks a period where depression will commonly onset. Twin
studies show that genetic influences play a role in how depression develops and changes …

Background Attrition in cohort studies challenges causal inference. Although inverse
probability weighting (IPW) has been proposed to handle attrition in association analyses, its …

Objective: In adolescents and young adults, depressive symptoms are highly prevalent and
dynamic. For clinicians, it is difficult to determine whether a young person reporting …

In this article, we propose integrated generalized structured component analysis (IGSCA),
which is a general statistical approach for analyzing data with both components and factors …

Background Evidence on the role of cannabis as a gateway drug is inconsistent. We
characterise patterns of cannabis use among UK teenagers aged 13–18 years, and assess …