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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Carolyn CoffeySummaryAffiliation: Royal Children's Hospital Country: Australia Publications
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Cannabis dependence in young adults: an Australian population studyCarolyn Coffey
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Addiction 97:187-94. 2002....- Predicting death in young offenders: a retrospective cohort studyCarolyn Coffey
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, 2 Gatehouse Street, Parkville, VIC 3052
Med J Aust 181:473-7. 2004..To examine predictors of death in young offenders who have received a custodial sentence using data routinely collected by juvenile justice services... - Adolescent precursors of cannabis dependence: findings from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort StudyCarolyn Coffey
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 182:330-6. 2003..Dependence increases the likelihood of adverse consequences of cannabis use, but its aetiology is poorly understood... - Mortality in young offenders: retrospective cohort studyCarolyn Coffey
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
BMJ 326:1064. 2003..To estimate overall and cause specific standardised mortality ratios in young offenders... - Trajectories of adolescent alcohol and cannabis use into young adulthoodGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Addiction 102:607-15. 2007..Both are commonly initiated in adolescence. To date little research has described trajectories of adolescent cannabis or alcohol use or compared their respective consequences in young adulthood... - Reverse gateways? Frequent cannabis use as a predictor of tobacco initiation and nicotine dependenceGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Children s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Addiction 100:1518-25. 2005..Specifically we examined whether cannabis use in non-smokers predicted later initiation of tobacco use and whether cannabis use predicted later nicotine dependence in tobacco users... - Teen smokers reach their mid twentiesGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Adolesc Health 39:214-20. 2006..Most outcome studies of adolescent smokers have focused on tobacco use in the short term. Few have reported on the health of adolescent smokers as they reach young adulthood... - Problem alcohol use in young Australian adultsSophie C Reid
Centre for Adolescent Health, 2 Gatehouse Street, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:436-41. 2007..To examine the extent to which excessive drinking in young adults is associated with alcohol abuse and dependence... - Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort studyGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
BMJ 325:1195-8. 2002..To determine whether cannabis use in adolescence predisposes to higher rates of depression and anxiety in young adulthood... - Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health dataGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health and Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Lancet 374:881-92. 2009..We analysed worldwide rates and patterns of mortality between early adolescence and young adulthood... - Assessing alcohol guidelines in teenagers: results from a 10-year prospective studyElya Moore
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 33:154-9. 2009..To assess the value of drinking guidelines applied in adolescence for predicting alcohol-related outcomes in young adulthood... - Teenage drinking and the onset of alcohol dependence: a cohort study over seven yearsYvonne A Bonomo
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute
Addiction 99:1520-8. 2004..To determine whether adolescent alcohol use and/or other adolescent health risk behaviour predisposes to alcohol dependence in young adulthood... - Prognosis of adolescent partial syndromes of eating disorderGeorge C Patton
William Buckland House, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 192:294-9. 2008..Partial syndromes of eating disorder are common in adolescents but the health significance of these syndromes remains uncertain... - Overweight and obesity between adolescence and young adulthood: a 10-year prospective cohort studyGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Victoria, Australia
J Adolesc Health 48:275-80. 2011..To assess changes in overweight and obesity between adolescence and young adulthood... - Long-term impact of the Gatehouse Project on cannabis use of 16-year-olds in AustraliaLyndal Bond
Centre for Adolescent Health, 2 Gatehouse St, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia
J Sch Health 74:23-9. 2004..OR 0.50, 95% CI 0.26, 0.98). This study indicates that a multi-level school-based program may provide an innovative direction for sustainable school interventions with the potential to reduce substance use... - Sustainability of change with quality general practitioner education in adolescent health: a 5-year follow-upLena Sanci
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Med Educ 39:557-60. 2005..The intervention was designed with evidence-based strategies in continuing medical education... - Prematurity at birth and adolescent depressive disorderGeorge C Patton
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Centre for Adolescent Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 184:446-7. 2004..2% (95% CI 11.1-20.5) v. 1.8% (95% CI 1.6-2.1) in those with normal deliveries. Physiological adaptations in utero before full term may be implicated causally in some cases of depression in adolescence... - R U OK 2 TXT 4 RESEARCH?--feasibility of text message communication in primary care researchDagmar Haller
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 35:175-6. 2006..Young people have led the recent rise in prevalence of text message usage, which is increasingly used in clinical settings... - Association between dependent smoking and a polymorphism in the tyrosine hydroxylase gene in a prospective population-based study of adolescent healthCraig Olsson
Gene Discovery Laboratory, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Behav Genet 34:85-91. 2004..1997). The potential significance of including time to first cigarette in definitions of tobacco dependence and the possible role that these TH variants might play in tobacco dependence are discussed... - 'Diagnostic orphans' among young adult cannabis users: persons who report dependence symptoms but do not meet diagnostic criteriaLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Sydney, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 67:205-12. 2002..To examine the characteristics of 'diagnostic orphans' among cannabis users-those who report one or two symptoms of DSM-IV dependence but do not meet diagnostic criteria for DSM-IV abuse or dependence... - A longitudinal study of the effects of adolescent cannabis use on high school completionMichael T Lynskey
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Addiction 98:685-92. 2003..To examine the extent to which weekly cannabis use during mid-adolescence may increase the risk of early school-leaving... - Are diagnostic orphans at risk of developing cannabis abuse or dependence? Four-year follow-up of young adult cannabis users not meeting diagnostic criteriaLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 92:86-90. 2008..To examine the characteristics of "diagnostic orphans" among cannabis users - those who report one or two symptoms of DSM-IV dependence but do not meet diagnostic criteria for DSM-IV abuse or dependence - 4 years post-assessment... - Who are the new amphetamine users? A 10-year prospective study of young AustraliansLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Addiction 102:1269-79. 2007..We examined these issues using a representative cohort of young people followed-up in Victoria, Australia... - The predictors and consequences of adolescent amphetamine use: findings from the Victoria Adolescent Health Cohort StudyLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Addiction 102:1076-84. 2007..However, little is known about the predictors and effects of early-onset amphetamine use. We set out to examine these issues using a representative cohort of young people followed-up over 11 years in Victoria, Australia... - Personality and substance use disorders in young adultsPaul Moran
Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:374-9. 2006..There have been no studies of the co-occurrence of personality and substance use disorders in young community-dwelling adults... - Childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders in females: findings from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort StudyLena Sanci
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:261-7. 2008..To examine the relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) before the age of 16 years and later onset of bulimia and anorexia nervosa symptoms in females...