Observational study finds impulsivity predicts substance use initiation in adolescents, suggesting a need for larger samples for better predictions.
These results support a significant but small contribution of impulsivity in predicting the onset of early adolescent substance use, indicating that these factors alone are insufficient for clinically deployable prediction. In community samples, large sample sizes are needed for reproducible impulsivity prediction of adolescent substance use.
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