多重物質の組み合わせの不均衡な使用は,米国の成人の間で性的アイデンティティによって異なります
Luis M Mestre1, Marney A White1,2, Juhan Lee3
1Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
PloS one
|February 18, 2026
まとめ
バイセクシュアルな女性は多重物質の使用率が高く,しばしばアルコール,大麻,ニコチン製品を組み合わせます. これらのパターンを理解することは,レズビアン,ゲイ,バイセクシュアルな成人を対象とした公衆衛生の介入に不可欠です.
科学分野:
- 公共衛生は公衆衛生である.
- 薬物使用に関する研究研究
- LGBTQ+集団における健康格差
背景:
- 多重物質の使用は,レズビアン,ゲイ,バイセクシャル (LGB) の成人に不釣り合いな影響を及ぼし,重大な公衆衛生上の課題となっています.
- 特にバイセクシャルな女性は,多重物質の使用のリスクが高いグループとして特定されています.
- 既存の研究は,多様な性的少数派集団における多物質組み合わせの微妙なパターンをしばしば見過ごしている.
研究 の 目的:
- 過去30日間でLGB成人が使用した一般的な多重物質の組み合わせを特定する.
- これらの多重物質の組み合わせが,性的アイデンティティと性に基づいてどのように異なるかを調べる.
- LGBの個人に合わせた公衆衛生戦略の開発を促す.
主な方法:
- 薬物使用と健康に関する全国調査 (NSDUH) 2021-2022年のデータ分析.
- 66,634人の成人からなる大規模な分析サンプルを採取し,その8.59%がLGBであると確認した.
- 複数の物質の組み合わせを性および性同一性によって評価するために,調査重量化された多項論理回帰モデルの適用.
主要な成果:
- 最も頻繁に使用された物質には,アルコールの乱用,大麻,タバコ,ニコチンのvapingが含まれています.
- 双性愛者の女性成人は,多くのポリ物質の組み合わせを使用していると報告しており,しばしばアルコール,大麻,またはその両方,しばしば3つまたは4つの物質を使用しています.
- 多重物質の組み合わせにおける有意な性差は,異性愛者および双性愛者の成人では観察されたが,ゲイ/レズビアン成人では観察されなかった.
結論:
- 多重物質の使用パターンは,LGB成人の間で著しく変化し,性的アイデンティティと性別によって顕著な違いがあります.
- バイセクシャルな女性は,特定の公衆衛生上の注意を必要とする独特で複雑な多物質使用プロフィールを示しています.
- 効果的な公衆衛生の介入は,性的アイデンティティ,性,および特定のタイプの物質の組み合わせが交差していることに敏感でなければなりません.
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