Predicting Substance Use in Early Adolescence Based on Parent and Teacher Assessments of Childhood Psychiatric Disorder: Results from the Ontario Child Health Study Follow‐up

This article examines relationships between psychiatric disorder, poor school performance, family dysfunction and low family income in a cohort of 8-12-year-olds and use of tobacco, marijuana and hard drugs 4 years later. Conduct disorder assessed by teachers predicted use of alcohol and hard drugs, while low family income and poor school performance predicted use of tobacco. Neither attention-deficit disorder nor emotional disorder was related …