Abstract Aims To examine prospectively the contribution of the recreational social environment to Ecstasy initiation. Design Population-based retrospective/prospective cohort study. Setting Data from screening an Australian young adult population to obtain samples of users and non-users of Ecstasy.
Abstract Aims Animal models show that a single dose of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamhetamine (MDMA; ecstasy’) can result in long-term disruption of sleep.
Also filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Tagged association, brief-patient, data-on-ecstasy, electoral, follow-up-every, health, people-at-wave, personality, psychosocial, relationship, study, substances, through-life, total-health, using-the-brief
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Abstract Aims To prospectively investigate the relation between cannabis use expectancies and cannabis use prior to and during a self-initiated cannabis cessation attempt. Design Cohort design that followed participants for four weeks following a self-initiated cessation attempt. Setting United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical center.
Abstract Aims To assess reliability and validity of self-reported cannabis dose and potency measures. Design Cross-sectional study comparing self-reports with objective measures of amount of cannabis and THC concentration. Setting Ecological study with assessments at participants home or in a coffee shop.
A group of researchers from Sweden have provided further evidence that illegal drugs can be detected in the breath, opening up the possibility of a roadside breathalyzer test to detect substances such as cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis…
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Tagged breath, cocaine, detect-substances, evidence, further-evidence, possibility, such-as-cocaine, sweden, the-breath, the-possibility
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People with mental illnesses are more than seven times more likely to use cannabis weekly compared to people without a mental illness, according to researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) who studied U.S. data.
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Tagged addiction, centre, estimated-203, from-the-centre, mental-health, mental-illness, million-people, seven-times, the-most, weekly-compared, widely-used
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Abstract Aims To compare the prevalence of mental disorders between frequent cannabis users with and without dependence and the general population.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Aim This study estimates lifetime incidence trends of cannabis and cocaine use over 38 years from general population surveys of drug use (GPSDU) in Spain, taking into account changes of population age structure.
Also filed in Evidence Base, cocaine
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Tagged account-changes, both-substances, incidence-were, incidences-were, population-age, raw-incidence, spain, study-estimates, the-incidences, weighted-cubic
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Abstract Aim Characterize longitudinal patterns of substance use across a large sample of psychiatric patients discharged from inpatient admission, followed for 1-year post-hospitalization. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Background: Despite its increasing prevalence and acceptance among the general public, cannabis use continues to be viewed as an aberrant activity in many contexts. However, little is known about how stigma associated with cannabis use affects individuals who use cannabis for therapeutic purposes (CTP) and what strategies these individuals employ to manage associated stigma. The aim of this Canadian study was to describe users’ perceptions of and responses to the stigma attached to using CTP.