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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2010 Jul 16;45(3):295–301. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.06.014

Table 5.

Substance use and substance disorders as predictors of failure to graduate high school on time, adjusting for prior psychiatric disorders.

Model 11 Model 22 Model 32
Substance Use
Tobacco Use 1.99 (1.82,2.17) 1.97 (1.80,2.16)
Alcohol use 1.27 (1.16,1.40) 1.05 (0.95,1.16)
Illegal drugs use 1.24 (1.08,1.43) 0.98 (0.85,1.13)
Substance Use Disorders
Tobacco dependence 1.65 (1.26,2.17) 1.52 (1.13,2.03)
Alcohol abuse and/or dependence 1.15 (0.97,1.36) 1.01 (0.85,1.21)
Illegal drug abuse and/or dependence 1.43 (1.20,1.71) 1.34 (1.11,1.62)
1

Model 1 is estimated with one substance use or disorder predictor at a time, in addition to statistical controls for sociodemographic characteristics (age, sex, race-ethnicity, nativity, and region) and childhood adversities (financial hardship, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, parental mental disorder, parental domestic violence, family disruption), and prior psychiatric disorders listed in table 4.

2

Models 2 and 3 are estimated with all three substance use or disorder variables and statistical controls for sociodemographic characteristics (age, sex, race-ethnicity, nativity, and region), childhood adversities (financial hardship, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, parental mental disorder, parental domestic violence, family disruption), and prior psychiatric disorders listed in table 4.