Higher Neighborhood Crime Rates Don't Always Predict Early Initiation of Tobacco, Marijuana, and Alcohol

Table 2.

Correlations between Substance Use Initiation of Youth

  1 2 3

1 Tobacco Initiation r 1

p

2 Marijuana Initiation r 0.422 1

p <0.001

3 Alcohol Initiation r 0.1826 0.1414 1

p <0.001 <0.001

Note: Data Came from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Pearson correla-tions were used. N = 11,878.