Saturday, February 11, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims This paper queries the notion that young people overestimate peer substance use, asking whether there is robust evidence that such misperceptions are widespread and whether the phenomenon may have been exaggerated in the research literature. Method An examination of the research literature was conducted, focusing mainly on studies published since 2000. Some analyses of relevant data on cannabis use from a Norwegian youth survey were also undertaken.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Researchers from Dalhousie University found that, individuals are almost two times more likely to cause a vehicle collision if they consume cannabis within three hours of driving than individuals not under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Abstract Aims: Cannabis and tobacco use and misuse frequently co-occur. This review examines the epidemiological evidence supporting the lifetime co-occurrence of cannabis and tobacco use and outlines the mechanisms that link these drugs to each other. Mechanisms include (a) shared genetic factors; (b) shared environmental influences, including (c) route of administration (via smoking), (d) co-administration and (e) models of co-use
Also filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Tagged epidemiological, genetic-factors, lifetime, mechanisms, potential, public-health, review, some-mechanisms, sustained, the-mechanisms, their-sustained, tobacco
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Abstract Aims: The study aims to estimate the prevalence of drug use by pregnant women living in Ibiza, using structured interviews and biomarkers in maternal hair In addition, the potential detrimental effects of maternal drug abuse on their newborns were investigated. Ibiza has a large international night-life resort associated with clubs, music and use of recreational drugs
Also filed in Evidence Base, cocaine, tobacco
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Tagged among-pregnant, analysis-showed, hospital, ibiza, last-trimester, maternal-hair, mediterranean, metabolites, newborns, potential, questionnaires, tobacco-smoking
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Abstract Aims: The study aimed at examining the associations between cannabis use and work commitment. Design: We used a 25 year panel survey initiated in 1985 with follow-ups in 1987, 1989, 1993, 2003 and 2010. Registered data from a range of public registers were matched with individual responses for the entire period.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Changes in the endocannabinoid system may have important implications for psychiatric and addiction disorders. This brain system is responsible for making substances that have effects on brain function which resemble those of cannabis products, e.g., marijuana…
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Background: Cannabis intoxication is related to a number of physical and mental health risks with ensuing social costs. However, little attention has been given to the investigation of possible pharmacological interactions in this condition. Objective: To review the available scientific literature concerning pharmacological interventions for the treatment of the acute effects of cannabis
Also filed in Harm Reduction
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Tagged clinical-trials, condition, effectiveness, evidence, investigation, management, mental-health, physiological, pubmed, reference, review, search, their-reference, treatment
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The goal of this paper is to both understand and depathologize clinically significant mental distress related to criminalized contact with psychoactive biotic substances by employing a framework known as critical political ecology of health and disease from the subdiscipline of medical geography. The political ecology of disease framework joins disease ecology with the power-calculus of political economy and calls for situating health-related phenomena in their broad social and economic context, demonstrating how large-scale global processes are at work at the local level, and giving due attention to historical analysis in understanding the relevant human-environment relations. Critical approaches to the political ecology of health and disease have the potential to incorporate ever-broadening social, political, economic, and cultural factors to challenge traditional causes, definitions, and sociomedical understandings of disease.
Conclusions: Cannabis, amphetamine, and opiate use are associated with an increased risk of becoming a forensic psychiatric patient, but no substantial differences were observed among patients with psychosis diagnosis in the relative risk increase for cannabis versus amphetamine versus opiate use, indicating that none of these drugs are uniquely associated with violent offending among mentally ill. PMID: 22242792 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
Background: In 2001 Health Canada responded to a series of Ontario court decisions by creating the Marihuana Medical Access Division (MMAD) and the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR). Although Health Canada has conducted a small number of stakeholder consultations, the federal government has never polled federally authorized cannabis patients