Substance Abuse - Subject Baseline
This measure appears in the following time-points: Baseline.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
The Substance Use/Abuse Inventory is a modified version of a substance use measure developed by Chassin et al., 1991 for use in a study of children of alcoholics. This measure considers the adolescent's use of illegal drugs and alcohol over the course of his/her lifetime and in the past six-months. The self-report measure is comprised of the following subscales: Substance Use (e.g., "How often have you had alcohol to drink?") and Social Consequences, Dependency & Treatment (e.g., "Have you ever had problems or arguments with family or friends before because of your alcohol or drug use?"/ "Have you ever wanted a drink or drugs so badly that you could not think of about anything else?"). In addition, Parental Substance Use (e.g., "Has your mother ever gotten into trouble at work because of drinking?") is assessed.
Substance Use
- Alcohol - 1 item assesses lifetime alcohol use. If positively endorsed - 4 questions follow that further assess heavy drinking and past 6-month alcohol use.
- Illegal Drugs -the frequency of use in 10 different drug categories over the subject's lifetime is assessed. If lifetime use of a particular drug is endorsed - a question follows about use of that drug in the past six months. If use in the past six months is endorsed - subject is asked about use in the past 24 hours. If use in past 24 hours endorsed - Subject identifies the drug(s) used.
- Smoking - 1 item assesses smoking. If positively endorsed, 3 questions follow that assess smoking amount and frequency.
Social Consequences, Dependency & Treatment
- Social Consequences - 17 items assess social consequences in lifetime. If lifetime consequences are endorsed - subject is asked if these occurred in the past six months. If consequences endorsed in either lifetime or past six months - subject is asked to attribute problems to drugs, alcohol or both.
- Dependency - 10 items assess dependency in lifetime. If lifetime dependency is endorsed - subject is asked if these occurred in the past six months. If dependency items are endorsed for either lifetime or past six months - subject is asked to attribute dependency problems to drugs, alcohol or both.
- Treatment - 4 items assess involvement in treatment in lifetime. If lifetime treatment is endorsed - subject is asked if treatment was received in the past six months. If treatment in either lifetime or past six months - subject is asked to attribute dependency problems to drugs, alcohol or both.
Parental Substance Use
Mother
- Mother's alcohol use - 1 item. If mother does not abstain- 11 items follow regarding mother's alcohol-related social consequences and dependency.
- Mother's drug use - 1 item. If mother does or has used street drugs- subject asked to assess whether this use "is a problem" currently or "was a problem" in the past.
Father
- Father's alcohol use - 1 item. If father does not abstain-11 items follow regarding father's alcohol-related social consequences and dependency.
- Father's drug use - 1 item. If father does or has used street drugs- subject asked to assess whether this use "is a problem" currently or "was a problem" in the past.
Twenty-five scores are computed :
- Quantity/Frequency of alcohol use - past six months [s0qfbrmo]; frequency times quantity
- Number of drugs used in lifetime [s0evruse]; count of endorsed items
- Number of drugs used in past six months [s06mouse]; count of endorsed items
- Quantity/Frequency of cigarette use in past six months [s0qfsmk6]
- Lifetime Alcohol consequences - BL [s0alsc2]; count of social consequences occurring in lifetime and attributed to alcohol
- Past 6mo Alcohol Consequences-BL [s0a6sc2]; count of social consequences in past six months attributed to alcohol
- Lifetime Drug Consequences-BL [s0dlsc2]; count of social consequences occurring in lifetime and attributed to drugs
- Past 6m Drug Consequences-BL [s0d6sc2]; count of social consequences in past six months and attributed to drugs
- Lifetime Alcohol Dependence Symptoms-BL [s0aldp2]; count of symptoms in lifetime and attributed to alcohol use
- Past 6 months Alcohol Dependence Symptoms-BL [s0a6dp2]; count of symptoms in past six months attributed to alcohol use
- Lifetime Drug Dependence Symptoms-BL [s0dldp2]; count of symptoms in lifetime and attributed to drug use
- Past 6 months Drug Dependence Symptoms-BL [s0d6dp2]; count of symptoms in past six months attributed to drug use
- Lifetime Total Substance Use Consequences-BL [s0totscl]; count of consequences attributed to either drugs or and alcohol
- Past 6 months Total Substance Use Consequences-BL [s0totsc6]; count of consequences in past six months attributed to either drugs or alcohol
- Lifetime Total Substance Use Dependency Symptoms-BL [s0totdsl]; count of dependency symptoms attributed to either drugs or alcohol
- Past 6 months Total Substance Use Dependency Symptoms-BL [s0totds6]; count of dependency symptoms attributed to drugs or alcohol that have occurred in the past six months
- Lifetime Alcohol Treatment-BL [s0altrty]
- Past 6 months Alcohol Treatment-BL [s0altrtm]
- Lifetime Drug Treatment-BL [s0dgtrty]
- Past 6 months Drug Treatment-BL [s0dgtrtm]
- Lifetime Alcohol or Drug Treatment-BL [s0trty]
- Past 6 months Alcohol or Drug Treatment-BL [s0trtm]
- Father's Alcohol Social Consequences-BL [s0falsc]
- Mother's Alcohol Social Consequences-BL [s0malsc]
The following individual items are also available:
- Most EVER used alcohol [S0SubUse]
- Past 6 months how often used alcohol [S0SubUs2]
- How many drinks do you usually have [S0SubUs3]
- Past 6 months how often had 5 or more drinks at time [S0SubUs4]
- Past 6 months number of times been drunk on alcohol [S0SubUs5]
- Most EVER used marijuana [S0SubUs6]
- Past 6 months number of times used marijuana [S0SubUs7]
- Most EVER used sedatives to get high [S0SubUs8]
- Past 6 months number of times used sedatives [S0SubUs9]
- Most EVER used stimulants to get high [S0SubU10]
- Past 6 months number of times used stimulants [S0SubU11]
- Most EVER used cocaine [S0SubU12]
- Past 6 months number of times used cocaine [S0SubU13]
- Most EVER used Opiates [S0SubU14]
- Past 6 months number of times used opiates [S0SubU15]
- Most EVER used ecstasy to get high [S0SubU16]
- Past 6 months number of times used ecstasy [S0SubU17]
- Most EVER used hallucinogens [S0SubU18]
- Past 6 months number of times used hallucinogens [S0SubU19]
- Most EVER used inhalants to get high [S0SubU20]
- Past 6 months number of times used inhalants [S0SubU21]
- Most EVER used amyl nitrate odorizers [S0SubU22]
- Past 6 months number of times used amyl nitrate [S0SubU23]
- Most EVER used any OTHER drugs [S0SubU24]
- Past 6 months used any other things get high [S0SubU25]
- Past 6 months number of times used other to get high [S0SubU26]
- Most EVER used prescribed medications (own or someone elses) [S0SubU35]
- Past 6 months number of times used prescribed medications (own or someone elses) [S0SubU36]
- Used any drugs past 24 hours [S0SubU27]
- EVER smoked cigarettes [S0SubU31]
- When smoking the most how often [S0SubU32]
- Past 6 months how often smoke cigarettes [S0SubU33]
- Past 6 months how many cigarettes in a day [S0SubU34]
Data Issues
- Up and including interview version 01.04, all consequences, dependency and treatment individual items were asked of everybody. Starting with version 01.05, these were only asked if the subject endorsed using drugs or alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
References
- Chassin, L., Rogosch, F., and Barrera, M. (1991). Substance use and symptomatology among adolescent children of alcoholics. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100(4), 449-463.
- DeLucia, C., Belz, A., and Chassin, L. (2001). Do adolescent symptomatology and family environment vary over time with fluctuations in paternal alcohol impairment? Developmental Psychology, 37(2), 207-216.