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Berey BL, Meisel S, Pielech M, Parnes J, Padovano HT, Miranda R. A test of competing mediators linking trouble sleeping to cannabis use in adolescents and emerging adults. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 2024; 32:316-328. [PMID: 38127518 PMCID: PMC11098684 DOI: 10.1037/pha0000693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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This study examined day-level associations between trouble sleeping and three cannabis-use indices (likelihood/quantity of use and impaired control). We evaluated behavioral and cognitive mediators of the association between trouble sleeping and cannabis outcomes. Youth (N = 86, ages 15-24, 48.8% female, 58.8% White, 18.6% Latine) who regularly used cannabis were recruited for an intervention study. This preregistered secondary data analysis leveraged data from a 1-week ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study completed prior to intervention. Trouble sleeping, cannabis use, and impaired control over use were assessed each morning; negative affect, risk-taking propensity, and cannabis craving were assessed multiple times and aggregated to create a daily average. Multilevel structural equation modeling evaluated hypothesized temporally sequenced associations and putative mechanisms at the day (i.e., within) and person (i.e., between) level. In bivariate analyses at the person level, there were large-effect associations between trouble sleeping and craving and negative affect, and between craving and cannabis-use likelihood and quantity (rs from .34 to .48). In multilevel analyses at the day level, participants were less likely to use cannabis the next day after reporting more trouble sleeping (β = -.65, p < .001). Trouble sleeping was not directly associated with subsequent cannabis-use quantity or impaired control, or indirectly via negative affect, risk-taking propensity, or craving. Trouble sleeping had differential relations with cannabis-use indices at the day and person levels. To promote youth health and reduce cannabis use, future research may consider the unique, person- and situation-driven mechanistic processes at play. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Benjamin L. Berey
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health
- E.P. Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health
- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health
- Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
- E.P. Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI
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Burgess HJ, Troost JP, Rizvydeen M, Kikyo F, Kebbeh N, Tan M, Roecklein KA, King AC, Hasler BP. Do sleep and circadian characteristics predict alcohol use in adult drinkers? ALCOHOL, CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 48:680-691. [PMID: 38546532 PMCID: PMC11015972 DOI: 10.1111/acer.15280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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BACKGROUND While sleep and circadian rhythms are recognized contributors to the risk for alcohol use and related problems, few studies have examined whether objective sleep and circadian measures can predict future alcohol use in humans, and no such studies have been conducted in adults. This study examined whether any baseline sleep and/or circadian characteristics of otherwise healthy adults predicted their alcohol use over the subsequent 12 months. METHODS Participants (21-42 years) included 28 light and 50 heavy drinkers. At baseline, a comprehensive range of self-reported and objective sleep/circadian measures was assessed via questionnaires, wrist actigraphy, and measurement of dim light melatonin onset and circadian photoreceptor responsivity. Following this, the number of alcoholic drinks per week and binge drinking episodes per month were assessed quarterly over the subsequent 12 months. Anticipated effects of alcohol (stimulation, sedation, and rewarding aspects) were also assessed quarterly over the 12 months. Analyses included generalized linear mixed-effects models and causal mediation analysis. RESULTS Across the range of measures, only self-reported insomnia symptoms and a longer total sleep time at baseline predicted more drinks per week and binges per month (ps <0.02). There was a trend for the anticipated alcohol effect of wanting more alcohol at the 6-month timepoint to mediate the relationship between insomnia symptoms at baseline and drinks per week at 12 months (p = 0.069). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that in otherwise healthy adults, insomnia symptoms, even if subclinical, are a significant predictor of future drinking, and appear to outweigh the influence of circadian factors on future drinking, at least in otherwise healthy adults. Insomnia symptoms may be a modifiable target for reducing the risk of alcohol misuse.
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- Helen J. Burgess
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Tapia AL, Wallace ML, Hasler BP, Holmes J, Pedersen SL. Effect of daily discrimination on naturalistic sleep health features in young adults. Health Psychol 2024; 43:298-309. [PMID: 38190204 PMCID: PMC10939866 DOI: 10.1037/hea0001359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Racial inequities in sleep health are well documented and may be partially attributable to discrimination experiences. However, the effects of acute discrimination experiences on same-night sleep health are understudied. We quantified naturalistic discrimination experiences captured using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and examined whether reporting discrimination on a given day predicted sleep health that night. METHOD Participants completed baseline assessments and a 17-day EMA protocol, with text prompts delivered four times daily to collect discrimination experiences. Seven different daily sleep characteristics were ascertained each morning. Discrimination reasons (e.g., because of my racial identity) were reported by participants and categorized into any, racial, or nonracial discrimination. Outcomes included the seven sleep diary characteristics. We fit generalized linear mixed effects models for each sleep outcome and discrimination category, controlling for key covariates. RESULTS The analytic sample included 116 self-identified Black and White individuals (48% Black, 71% assigned female at birth, average age = 24.5 years). Among Black participants, race-based discrimination was associated with a 0.5-hr reduction in total sleep time (TST). Among White individuals, nonracial discrimination was associated with a 0.6-hr reduction in TST, an earlier sleep offset, and reduced sleep efficiency (partly attributable to more nighttime awakenings). CONCLUSIONS Young adults may sleep worse on nights after experiencing discrimination, and different types of discrimination affect different sleep outcomes for Black and White individuals. Future studies may consider developing treatments that account for different sleep vulnerabilities for people experiencing discrimination on a given day. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
- Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
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Hasler BP, Schulz CT, Pedersen SL. Sleep-Related Predictors of Risk for Alcohol Use and Related Problems in Adolescents and Young Adults. Alcohol Res 2024; 44:02. [PMID: 38500552 PMCID: PMC10948113 DOI: 10.35946/arcr.v44.1.02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/20/2024] Open
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PURPOSE Growing evidence supports sleep and circadian rhythms as influencing alcohol use and the course of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Studying sleep/circadian-alcohol associations during adolescence and young adulthood may be valuable for identifying sleep/circadian-related approaches to preventing and/or treating AUD. This paper reviews current evidence for prospective associations between sleep/circadian factors and alcohol involvement during adolescence and young adulthood with an emphasis on the effects of sleep/circadian factors on alcohol use. SEARCH METHODS The authors conducted a literature search in PsycInfo, PubMed, and Web of Science using the search terms "sleep" and "alcohol" paired with "adolescent" or "adolescence" or "young adult" or "emerging adult," focusing on the title/abstract fields, and restricting to English-language articles. Next, the search was narrowed to articles with a prospective/longitudinal or experimental design, a sleep-related measure as a predictor, an alcohol-related measure as an outcome, and confirming a primarily adolescent and/or young adult sample. This step was completed by a joint review of candidate article abstracts by two of the authors. SEARCH RESULTS The initial search resulted in 720 articles. After review of the abstracts, the list was narrowed to 27 articles reporting on observational longitudinal studies and three articles reporting on intervention trials. Noted for potential inclusion were 35 additional articles that reported on studies with alcohol-related predictors and sleep-related outcomes, and/or reported on candidate moderators or mediators of sleep-alcohol associations. Additional articles were identified via review of relevant article reference lists and prior exposure based on the authors' previous work in this area. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Overall, the review supports a range of sleep/circadian characteristics during adolescence and young adulthood predicting the development of alcohol use and/or alcohol-related problems. Although sleep treatment studies in adolescents and young adults engaging in regular and/or heavy drinking show that sleep can be improved in those individuals, as well as potentially reducing alcohol craving and alcohol-related consequences, no studies in any age group have yet demonstrated that improving sleep reduces drinking behavior. Notable limitations include relatively few longitudinal studies and only two experimental studies, insufficient consideration of different assessment timescales (e.g., day-to-day vs. years), insufficient consideration of the multidimensional nature of sleep, a paucity of objective measures of sleep and circadian rhythms, and insufficient consideration of how demographic variables may influence sleep/circadian-alcohol associations. Examining such moderators, particularly those related to minoritized identities, as well as further investigation of putative mechanistic pathways linking sleep/circadian characteristics to alcohol outcomes, are important next steps.
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- Brant P Hasler
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Parnes JE, Berey BL, Pielech M, Meisel SN, Padovano HT, Miranda R. Does sleep relate to next-day cannabis use during treatment? Findings from an adolescent and young adult motivational enhancement and cognitive behavioral therapy plus topiramate intervention. Drug Alcohol Depend 2023; 253:111006. [PMID: 37944198 PMCID: PMC10842099 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.111006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Interventions for youth cannabis use have limited efficacy. Sleep is likely to affect treatment response, as sleep difficulties are cross-sectionally associated with use and common during treatment. This analysis examined how sleep duration and subjective trouble sleeping related to next-day cannabis use among youth during cannabis treatment. METHOD Participants (N=64) received a psychosocial intervention plus topiramate versus placebo while completing a 6-week ecological momentary assessment study. Time-varying effect modeling (TVEM) examined within- and between-person associations between sleep and cannabis use and how the strength of within-person associations varied over the course of treatment. RESULTS TVEM resvealed that, between-participants, youth with longer average sleep duration used cannabis less often controlling for baseline cannabis use, topiramate, and weekend status. Daily within-person fluctuations in sleep duration and trouble were not associated with use. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest regularly shorter sleep may impede treatment outcomes. Adolescents who regularly have insufficient sleep durations likely need additional intervention to improve sleep difficulties in tandem with cannabis use reduction.
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- Jamie E Parnes
- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; E. P. Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI, USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; E. P. Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI, USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; E. P. Bradley Hospital, Riverside, RI, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
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Miller MB, Park A. Bidirectional associations between sleep and addiction across populations: Introduction to the special issue. Addict Behav 2023; 144:107722. [PMID: 37084566 PMCID: PMC10461131 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/23/2023]
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- Mary Beth Miller
- University of Missouri, 1 Hospital Drive DC067.00, Columbia, MO 65212, USA.
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- Syracuse University, 430 Huntington Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
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Fairlie AM, Calhoun BH, Graupensperger S, Patrick ME, Lee CM. Daily-level simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use and its associations with alcohol use, marijuana use, and negative consequences in a young adult community sample. ALCOHOL, CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 47:1690-1701. [PMID: 38051139 DOI: 10.1111/acer.15145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana (SAM) use has been associated with greater alcohol use and consequences at the daily level, but limited research has examined SAM use in relation to marijuana use and its consequences. This study tested daily associations between SAM use and four outcomes: alcohol use (number of drinks), marijuana use (hours high), negative alcohol consequences, and negative marijuana consequences. METHODS A community sample of young adults [ages 18-25, mean (SD) = 21.61 (2.17) years] with recent alcohol and SAM use was recruited (N = 409; 50.9% female; 48.2% non-Hispanic/Latinx White). Participants completed a baseline survey and six 2-week bursts of daily surveys (81.1% of morning surveys completed) and reported on substance use and negative substance-related consequences. Multilevel modeling was used to test the main aims and to explore each specific consequence. RESULTS Among days with any alcohol use, SAM use days were associated with consuming more drinks and experiencing more total negative alcohol-related consequences than non-SAM use days. Among days with any marijuana use, SAM use days were associated with more hours being high than non-SAM use days. Exploratory models showed that SAM use was related to five specific alcohol-related consequences and two specific marijuana-related consequences. CONCLUSIONS These findings build upon prior research by showing that SAM use days are linked to consuming more drinks, reporting more hours being high from marijuana, and experiencing more total alcohol-related consequences even after controlling for the number of drinks, the number of hours high, any tobacco/nicotine use, and any other substance use. SAM use was also associated with a greater likelihood of experiencing some specific consequences related to alcohol and marijuana. The findings underscore the need for additional research on SAM use and marijuana-related outcomes.
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- Anne M Fairlie
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Hamilton HR, Armeli S, Tennen H. Too tired to drink? Daily associations of sleep duration and fatigue with own and others' alcohol consumption. PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS 2023; 37:267-274. [PMID: 36107642 PMCID: PMC9991971 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To better understand how sleep is associated with alcohol consumption among college students, the present study tested whether last night's sleep duration and current day fatigue were associated with being around others who were drinking that night and, if so, with alcohol consumption. METHOD College student drinkers (N = 540; mean age = 18.78 years; 52% female; 86% White) reported daily for 30 days yearly for up to 4 years on aspects of their sleep, their own alcohol use, and the perceived drinking of others in an intensive longitudinal burst design. RESULTS Participants were less likely to report that they were with others who were drinking on evenings following higher than average sleep duration or greater than average daytime fatigue. In addition, experiencing greater than average daytime fatigue was associated with a lower likelihood of consuming any alcohol and lower levels of alcohol consumption at the daily level. Thus, daytime fatigue may be protective against alcohol consumption through both selection and behavior moderation. CONCLUSIONS Results may be useful in the development of interventions to prevent heavy drinking among college students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, UConn School of Medicine
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