direct you to use them” to assess stimulant, sedative/anxiolytic, and opiate prescription medications and over-the-counter cough or cold medicines). This section ends with a broad substance use question to capture any other non-queried drug categories (“Have you heard of people using anything else to make them feel high, dizzy or different?”). A “yes” response to any of these opens the gating to the next level of query. For the “other” category, research assistants check off any drugs the youth mentions, although they do not read the options to the youth to prevent the mentioning of novel substances [menu of options covers cocaine; cathinones, methamphetamine; MDMA/ecstasy; ketamine; gamma hydroxybutyrate; opiates (heroin, opium); hallucinogens (lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, peyote, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, alpha-methyltryptamine, 5-methoxy-N,N-diisopropyltryptamine in one grouping, psilocybin and salvia separately); and anabolic steroids]. In order to query for over-reporting, we also ask if the youth has heard of drugs in a “bogus” drug category. If the youth says “yes”, then the research assistant will wait a few moments and then remind the youth about confidentiality and the need for accurate responding. If the youth has not heard of a substance, then no questions are asked about that substance moving forward.
