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Number of Sexual Partners and Associations with Initiation and Intensity of Substance Use

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This article dissected associations between initiation and intensity of substance use and number of sexual partners using pooled data from high school seniors (weighted n = 13,580) who participated in the 1999-2007 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS), a cross-sectional, nationally representative survey.
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We dissected associations between initiation and intensity of substance use and number of sexual partners using pooled data from high school seniors (weighted n = 13,580) who participated in the 1999–2007 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS), a cross-sectional, nationally representative survey. In multinomial multivariable logistic regressions, number of sexual partners steadily increased as substance use intensified from never use to experimental/new user to heavy use across all substances for both male and females. Severity of substance use is more closely related to, and thus a better indicator of, higher number of sexual partners than age of substance use onset.

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Adolescent Pregnancy: Current Trends and Issues

Jonathan D. Klein
- 01 Jul 2005 - 
TL;DR: Current trends and issues related to adolescent pregnancy are reviewed, update practitioners on this topic, and review legal and policy implications of concern to pediatricians are reviewed.
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