Faculty Sponsor: Gooyabadi, Maryam
Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/93366178617
Giovanni Nicodeme
Giovanni Nicodeme is a Freshman at Wesleyan University (CT), and is a prospective Government and Psychology double-major, and Football Player.
Abstract: Hallucinogen use has become a more visible part of substance use in the United States, making it important to understand demographic differences in recent use. This study used data from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to examine whether sex and race/ethnicity were associated with past-year hallucinogen use. The main research question asked how these demographic characteristics related to reporting hallucinogen use in the past 12 months. Results showed a significant relationship between sex and hallucinogen use, with males reporting higher past-year use than females, and logistic regression results further showed that females had lower odds of use than males while several racial/ethnic groups had lower odds of use than White respondents. Overall, these findings suggest that hallucinogen use was not evenly distributed across demographic groups. These results may be useful for better understanding patterns of substance use across the population and could help guide future research and public health efforts focused on demographic differences in hallucinogen use.
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