Table 2.
Proportion of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study participants within each gender category who have experimented (lifetime and new experimentation at Year 3) with each type of substance use.a
| Total sample | “Are you transgender?” | Felt gender categoriesb | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Substance use characteristics | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % |
| Substance use (lifetime experimentation) | ||||||||
| Alcohol | 15.3 % | 15.2 % | 24.8 % | 29.0 % | 14.6 % | 18.2 % | 18.8 % | 17.4 % |
| Nicotine | 2.8 % | 2.8 % | 1.1 % | 7.4 % | 2.7 % | 2.5 % | 3.5 % | 3.9 % |
| Cannabis | 2.0 % | 1.9 % | (−) | 9.1 % | 1.7 % | 1.5 % | 2.3 % | 5.3 % |
| Any substance | 28.2 % | 27.9 % | 38.7 % | 40.9 % | 26.9 % | 32.5 % | 36.2 % | 31.5 % |
| Substance use (new experimentation at Year 3) | ||||||||
| Alcohol | 4.7 % | 4.7 % | 4.9 % | 6.0 % | 4.1 % | 8.0 % | 7.3 % | 5.2 % |
| Nicotine | 1.8 % | 1.8 % | (−) | 6.1 % | 1.7 % | 1.8 % | 2.7 % | 2.5 % |
| Cannabis | 1.2 % | 1.2 % | (−) | 5.9 % | 1.1 % | 1.0 % | 1.9 % | 2.8 % |
| Any substance | 12.6 % | 12.5 % | 8.7 % | 19.3 % | 11.3 % | 18.0 % | 21.1 % | 14.5 % |
a
ABCD Study sampling weights were applied based on the American Community Survey from the US Census; (−) indicates no data available for the subgroup.
b
Categories represent increasing gender diverse identities based on questions of adolescents’ felt gender. In increasing order, categories are cisgender/SCFG, 1-STEP, 2-STEP, and minority group from Potter et al. (2021); SCFG = sex congruent felt gender