Alcohol and Cannabis Co-Use: Receptiveness to Treatments and Application to Intervention Planning

Abstract

Given the prevalence of alcohol and cannabis co-use among college students, prevention for co-use is crucial. We examined hypothetical receptiveness to substance-specific interventions among students who reported co-use. Students who use alcohol and cannabis were more receptive to alcohol interventions than cannabis interventions. Campus prevention experts should consider offering evidence-based, alcohol-focused interventions as a potential pathway for decreasing substance use among college students who engage in co-use.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Supplementary Material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2023.2177104

Notes

¹ Additional information on operationalization is provided in Current Study: Defining Co-Use.

² Given that this study was a secondary data analysis of a larger project (Helle et al., 2022), not all variables were assessed for both alcohol and cannabis (i.e., consequences). Therefore, there was no assessment of cannabis consequences available for inclusion in current analyses.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (F31AA026177 [PI: Boness], K08AA028543 [PI: Helle], T32AA013526 [PI: Sher]).