title: Substance use among gay and lesbian adolescents.
abstract: Surveys at a Massachusetts high school used multiple items to identify gay, lesbian, and bisexual teenagers. Students with consistent homosexual preferences had greatly elevated rates of substance use. Those who displayed a homosexual preference but answered less consistently also had somewhat higher rates of substance use but were closer to heterosexual youths than to more consistent homosexual youths. The differences in substance use were least for alcohol use and greater for "hard" drugs.
authors.affiliation: CASPAR Alcohol and Drug Education Program, Somerville, MA 02143, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Orenstein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D020010:Heterosexuality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008385:Marijuana Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D008404:Massachusetts / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012574:Schools; D017678:Sex Distribution; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs