Substance Use Exposure
Dimension 40 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Substance Use Exposure measures the extent to which an expression reflects contact with, experimentation with, or ongoing use of psychoactive substances and related smoking practices. It encompasses reports of trying drugs, considering reducing use, and describing current or past patterns of use.
evidence final name · Substance Use
Minimal Substance Use Exposure
Expressions activating this band show no clear substance-related content or only incidental, unrelated material, indicating that substance use exposure is not meaningfully expressed.
Low Substance Use Exposure
Expressions activating this band mention substance use in broad, exploratory, or occasional terms, such as having tried a drug or referring generally to use without a sustained pattern.
Moderate Substance Use Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe direct experience with specific drugs and emerging involvement, including repeated experimentation or thoughts about cutting down use.
High Substance Use Exposure
Expressions activating this band center on explicit smoking or drug-use behavior with recognizable frequency or status labels, such as never, former, occasional, or regular use.
Intense Substance Use Exposure
Expressions activating this band reflect highly concentrated substance-related signaling, with dense references consistent with strongly foregrounded drug or smoking involvement.
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Minimal Substance Use: Expressions show no meaningful substance use content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to substance use.
Emerging Substance Use: Substance use is experienced here as physiological and somatic distress, reflecting embodied arousal and clinical-grade symptom intensity. This is the first band where substance use becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band likely reflect physiological and embodied substance use.
Elevated Substance Use: Substance use is experienced here as observable behavioral patterns associated with problematic or disordered functioning. Unlike the band below, where substance use was characterized by the somatic and physiological form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band engage with substance use at a level associated with formal behavioral assessment.
Severe Substance Use: Substance use is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where substance use was characterized by the behavioral form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect substance use at this level of intensity.