Benzodiazepines consumption: does dependence vary with age?

abstract：:Background People who inject drugs (PWID) in rural areas of the United States have had limited access to syringe service programs (SSP). Rural SSP have recently surged, but accompanying research is lacking about PWID utilization, barriers, and preferences for SSP design and how those preferences vary by gender. Method...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Lancaster KE,Cooper HLF,Browning CR,Malvestutto CD,Bridges JFP,Young AM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides a brief introduction to current research concerned with alcohol and drug use, misuse, and treatment among displaced persons, including immigrants, refugees, and homeless individuals. Among the topics examined are theoretical issues related to our understanding of substance use processes among displ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Johnson TP

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although integrated programs between child welfare and substance abuse treatment are recommended for families with co-occurring child maltreatment and substance use disorders, implementing integrated service delivery strategies with fidelity is a challenging process. OBJECTIVE:This study of the first five y...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Huebner RA,Posze L,Willauer TM,Hall MT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the role of distress tolerance (DT) and race in relation to cigarette smoking. For this study, between 2008 and 2010, 153 women (62.1% White, 37.9% African American) from the Washington, DC metropolitan area completed a computerized behavioral DT task and self-reported smoking history. Resul...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Dahne J,Stratton KJ,Brown R,Amstadter AB,Lejuez CW,MacPherson L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated social network factors associated with participation in overdose prevention training among injection drug users (IDUs). From 2008 to 2010, 106 IDUs who had witnessed an overdose in the past year from two syringe exchange programs in Los Angeles provided data on overdose prevention training status (trai...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Wagner KD,Iverson E,Wong CF,Bloom JJ,McNeeley M,Davidson PJ,McCarty C,Kral AH,Lankenau SE

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Alcohol harm is a major contributor to the burden of disease in South Africa. This study aimed to identify the extent of heavy drinking and symptoms of alcohol problems among adult drinkers and associated demographic and other risk factors in the Tshwane Metropole of South Africa. Methods: A household surv...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Petersen Williams P,Morojele N,Londani M,Harker Burnhams N,Parry CDH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many believe that the public attitude toward psychotropic drugs is easy to change because it depends upon transient socioeconomic and cultural contingencies. This belief is here tested by analyzing literary sources on the use of wine and poppy derivatives in the Greek and Roman civilizations. As expected, the existenc...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Nencini P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined mortality and predictors of death in 1,396 primary amphetamine users (85% males) who were interviewed with the Addiction Severity Index in the Swedish criminal justice system during 2000-2006 and followed through 2008. Forty-nine clients deceased (standardized mortality ratio 4.1 [3.0-5.4]), at lea...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Ericsson E,Bradvik L,Hakansson A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents alternative models for reducing alcohol-involved problems at the local level and a review of research evidence about effectiveness. A computer simulation model and results from a community trial in the United States is used to illustrate and demonstrate possibilities. ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Holder HD

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal studies, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been found to affect brain morphology, particularly within areas rich in cannabinoid receptors (e.g., hippocampus, cerebral cortex). While cannabis remains the most widely used illicit drug worldwide, there has been limited work investigating its effects on human brain...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Lorenzetti V,Lubman DI,Whittle S,Solowij N,Yücel M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate whether gender differences occur in personality traits or interpersonal functioning among substance abuse therapists in the same way as they do on population level. The subjects (N = 162) were therapists in Finnish inpatient treatment institutions. Female therapists (N = 119...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Saarnio P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This mixed-methods study qualitatively (n = 13-convenience) explored contextual factors influencing decisions to drink responsibly, and quantitatively (n = 729-random) assessed the prevalence of these factors and whether they varied as a function of sex and binge-drinking status. Data were collected in 2007 among Texa...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Barry AE,Goodson P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether a history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) or current post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was associated with alcohol-related expectancies and recalled effects of drinking reported by women in substance user treatment. The results indicate that CSA status was not associated with...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Simpson TL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with other European countries, France's low number of drug use-related deaths may appear enviable. Previous studies have suggested significant underreporting. The three official records listing drug-related deaths in France in 2007 were cross-checked. Different capture-recapture techniques were applied. The e...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Janssen E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using an ecological perspective to examine the roles of contextual factors and proximal social processes, the current study examined problem behavior among adolescents. OBJECTIVE:The study examined how family, peer, and school processes mediate the relationship between cumulative contextual risk and problem...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Fitzgerald A,Maguire J,Dooley B

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This op-ed piece comments on the down-side of an otherwise useful 12-step slogan, "First Things First," which generally refers to staying sober (not drinking or using no matter what). While important, there are environmental, microsocial, psychiatric, and neurobiological considerations that may place other needs at an...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Sussman S,Forster M,Grigsby T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a large literature on substance misuse and interpersonal aggression, including aggression perpetrated by women in treatment for substance misuse. There is also a growing body of literature on mindfulness and substance use, as well as mindfulness and aggression. However, to date, there has been little research...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Shorey RC,Elmquist J,Anderson SE,Stuart GL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first drug treatment court began in Miami, Florida in 1989, in direct response to the backlog of court cases for drug possession and trafficking. By mid-2001, there were 700 operational drug treatment courts and 400 more in the planning stages in the United States. In addition to providing an overview of the growt...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Harrison LD,Scarpitti FR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article poses questions about the meaning of retention in substance user treatment. Retention has become a "gold standard" for substance user-treatment programs, suggesting it has become more than an indicator of positive outcomes, but a positive treatment outcome in its own right. Retention has been studied in n...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Walker R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the conceptual, ethical, and policy issues raised by the legal classification of drug addiction as an impairment, and of some nonusing drug addicts as people with disabilities. It focuses on the questions of (1) what moral judgments, if any, underlie the classification of addiction as an impairm...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Wasserman D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article recommends a longitudinal, national study of the outcomes of substance user treatment, plus a cohort of users who do not enter treatment. Viewing addiction primarily as a brain disease has provided interesting descriptive information but dismisses the psychological, social, political, economic, and legal ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Schildhaus S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the evolution of a two-and-a-half year pilot community action project aimed at developing strategies to reduce alcohol-use-related crashes in a rural police district in New Zealand. Formative evaluation aimed to assist an intersectoral coordinating group identify and implement strategies. Initiall...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Stewart L,Conway K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work was to determine if a spouse's expectations about a married person's drinking patterns affected his/her partner's alcohol use and alcohol use-related problems. Alcohol use and problems were assessed in a U.S. urban sample of 634 couples at the time they applied for their marriage license (19...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Homish GG,Leonard KE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the contribution of culturally relevant protective factors (i.e., adolescent religiosity, family connectedness, and perceived close friends' substance use) to the probability of young adult binge drinking among African American males. Participants (n = 1,599) drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of A...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Stevens-Watkins D,Rostosky S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotine use disorder is highly prevalent among methadone maintenance patients with its tobacco-related problems. However, the treatment modalities for nicotine use disorder remain limited. OBJECTIVE:Our meta-analysis aims to examine the effectiveness of smoking cessation treatment in this group of patients...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Yee A,Hoong MC,Joyce YC,Loh HS

更新日期：2018-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental application of Artificial Neural Networks to Eating Disorders is presented. The sample, composed of 172 cases (all women) collected at the Centre for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Eating Disorders of the 1st Medical Division of the St. Eugenio Hospital of Rome, was subdivided, on the basis of the diag...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Buscema M,Mazzetti di Pietralata M,Salvemini V,Intraligi M,Indrimi M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse examines phenomenological meanings surrounding motivations for club drug use in a sample of HIV seroconverted and seronegative gay and bisexual men. Grounded in the cognitive escape model (CEM), this study sought to clarify the synergistic relations...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Jerome RC,Halkitis PN,Siconolfi DE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of age, gender, tobacco-related knowledge, treatment modality, and changes in smoking patterns on intention to quit tobacco use among individuals participating in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in Ohio. Of the 791 SUD program attendees, 91.7% currently...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Moore D,Langlois M,Gerber BM,Gaddis R,Hallam JS,Arnold R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prescription drug, e-cigarette, smokeless tobacco, and synthetic marijuana use has risen dramatically in the United States over the past decade. OBJECTIVES:This paper investigates the use of risky substances among adolescents, and examines disparities between sexual minority (i.e., mostly heterosexual and l...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Goldbach JT,Mereish EH,Burgess C

更新日期：2017-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses mainly on youths' opinions about their delinquency and drug use trajectories. A qualitative approach was taken for this phenomenological research. The life account method was used to conduct a total of 62 interviews: 36 boys and 26 girls recruited in youth detention and addiction treatment centers, ...

journal_title：Substance use & misuse

authors： Brunelle N,Cousineau MM,Brochu S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00