Civic Engagement in California Cannabis Policy Development.

abstract：:College students across the U.S. engage in nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NMUPS) at increasing rates. While it has been found that use is frequently motivated by a belief that stimulants will act as a study aid, little is known about predictors of NMUPS. The present study addressed impulsivity, outcome exp...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Lookatch SJ,Dunne EM,Katz EC

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional ayahuasca can be defined as a brew made from Amazonian vine Banisteriopsis caapi and Amazonian admixture plants. Ayahuasca is used by indigenous groups in Amazonia, as a sacrament in syncretic Brazilian religions, and in healing and spiritual ceremonies internationally. The study aimed to determine concent...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Kaasik H,Souza RCZ,Zandonadi FS,Tófoli LF,Sussulini A

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The instruments used for psychological assessment have been under close scrutiny for many years. In particular, ethnic and racial minorities have pointed out that misapplication of instruments standardized to White middle-class norms can result in incorrect assessments. An analogous situation exists with IVDUs. In the...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Huang KH,Watters JK,Case P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant number of individuals with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders do not engage, stay, and/or complete residential treatment. The purpose of this study is to identify factors during the initial phase of treatment which predict retention in private residential treatment for individuals w...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Choi S,Adams SM,MacMaster SA,Seiters J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Drug-free" outpatient programs deliver treatment to the largest number of patients of all treatment modalities in the U.S., providing a significant opportunity to expand access to medication treatments for substance use disorders. This analysis examined staff perceptions of organizational dynamics associated with the...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Monico L,Schwartz RP,Gryczynski J,O'Grady KE,Mitchell SG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relationship between lifetime abuse and suicidal ideation in a sample of 245 injection drug users (IDUs) who attended the Baltimore Needle Exchange Program and received a referral for opiate agonist therapy. Data were obtained from baseline interviews and HIV antibody tests. The sample mean age...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Lloyd JJ,Ricketts EP,Havens JR,Cornelius LJ,Bishai D,Huettner S,Latkin C,Strathdee SA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, researchers and clinicians have viewed street heroin users as representing an end point in a drug-using career. It is toward this population that major national treatment efforts have been directed. Concomitant with the historical national concern about heroin use has been concern about the increase in ...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： McBride DC,Inciardi JA,Chitwood DD,McCoy CB

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "date rape drug" has traditionally been applied by the media to powerful sedatives, such as gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), which can render a person unconscious and hence unable to resist and/or recall an assault. However, some law enforcement agents and others have recently obtaine...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Jansen KL,Theron L

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the literature suggests that a common psychobiological process is associated with various altered states of consciousness (ASC) utilized by shamans, meditators, and mediums. However, the shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) can be differentiated physiologically from possession trance states. The psychophy...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Wright PA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic random sample of 267 patients who were involved in outpatient detoxification was surveyed. Their records were evaluated, and the demographics, psychiatric diagnoses, and type(s) of substance of abuse of each patient were recorded. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between an ...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Scorzelli JF,Chaudhry SZ

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men can present unique challenges when they come voluntarily or involuntarily to substance abuse groups. Twelve considerations are offered for working with men that include understanding the context of masculinity, how men are socialized, the gender of the therapist, their relationships with their fathers and their ch...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Greif GL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance abuse is a growing issue among adolescents. While not every adolescent who struggles with this issue seeks treatment, those who do frequently fail to complete treatment or tend to relapse following treatment. To improve adolescent treatments for substance abuse issues it is important to understand adolescent...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Harris N,Brazeau JN,Clarkson A,Brownlee K,Rawana EP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports on the results observed in a series of focus groups and in-depth interviews with injection drug users (IDUs) and drug dealers in Odessa, Ukraine. Ukraine has the highest rate of HIV infection in Eastern as well as Western Europe, and Odessa ranks among the cities in that country with the highest s...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Booth RE,Kennedy J,Brewster T,Semerik O

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes barriers to obtaining drug abuse treatment in the rural South using qualitative interviews conducted with 86 illicit stimulant users recruited in rural Arkansas and Kentucky between 2003 and 2005. Fifty-nine (69.0%) of the interviewees had never entered drug abuse treatment. Sixteen (19.0%) part...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Sexton RL,Carlson RG,Leukefeld CG,Booth BM

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion is provided of clinical techniques for establishing abstinence and preventing relapse in cocaine addicts within the context of an intensive outpatient treatment program. A basic tenet of this article is that to produce higher success rates in these and other drug-dependent patients more attention must be ...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Washton AM,Stone-Washton N

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the characteristics and treatment outcomes of rural adolescents with urban adolescents in substance abuse treatment programs in CSAT's Strengthening Communities for Youth (SCY) initiative. Using data from ten SCY programs nationally, the authors classified adolescents as rural or urban using Rural-...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Hall JA,Smith DC,Easton SD,An H,Williams JK,Godley SH,Jang M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The federal government is making a significant contribution to the treatment of adolescents with substance use disorders. However, funds are scattered across a number of policy domains. While some federal policies are complementary, many overlap, illustrating not only the complexity of collaborative efforts on the par...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Cavanaugh DA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The betel quid is one of the most commonly consumed psychoactive substances in the world. By archaeological evidence like the occurrence of areca nuts in archaeological sites, the typical overall reddish-brown staining on prehistoric human teeth or specific artifacts linked with the habit, it is assumed that this trad...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Krais S,Klima M,Huppertz LM,Auwärter V,Altenburger MJ,Neukamm MA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High attrition continues to be an important issue for substance abuse treatment providers. This study examined factors contributing to treatment entry and dropout after referral from centralized assessment. Univariate analysis showed that individuals with a shorter wait after assessment were more likely to attend an i...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Claus RE,Kindleberger LR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological surveys of illicit substance use show a particularly high prevalence of methamphetamine use in the western and southwestern United States-most notably California. Moreover, in their analysis of 1995 Drug Use Forecasting data, Anglin and colleagues (1998) found that methamphetamine was a preferre...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Farabee D,Prendergast M,Cartier J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in recreational use of ketamine in France led to the carrying out of a survey aimed at depicting the sociological profiles of French ketamine users, their addictive behaviors, and the characteristics relevant to the use of the substance. This survey is based upon the analysis of 250 questionnaires, 24 sem...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Reynaud-Maurupt C,Bello PY,Akoka S,Toufik A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article documents the prevalence of injection-related HIV risk behaviors among a sample of 758 Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, and African-American drug injectors derived from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Cooperative Agreement database. The results show that the two Hispanic subgroups had higher injection...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Estrada AL

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using secondary data analysis,this study compares alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems experienced by African-American students attending a historically Black university who use alcohol only versus those who use alcohol plus marijuana. Results indicate that students who used marijuana plus alcohol experienced more AO...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Rhodes WA,Peters RJ Jr,Perrino CS,Bryant S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-one subjects who used ayahuasca at least once in North America answered a lengthy set of open-ended questions and completed the 81-item After the Spiritual Experience Questionnaire. An additional 50 ayahuasca users were interviewed in person. The data for this study represent ayahuasca experience based on more ...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Harris R,Gurel L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient-reported toxicity of an overdose of intravenous methamphetamine is described. The authors report the case of a 34-year old man who inadvertently injected himself with approximately 2.3 grams of methamphetamine. The patient reported disorientation, hallucinations, hyperthermia, photophobia, orthostasis and ...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Buffum JC,Shulgin AT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system rewarding properties of ethanol, cocaine, and heroin may activate a common catecholaminergic reward system in the mesolimbic circuitry of the brain. Driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenders with either alcohol- or cocaine-related problems were studied. The neuronutrients SAAVE and Tropami...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Brown RJ,Blum K,Trachtenberg MC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood maltreatment and alcohol problems are common among young adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, little is known about the degree to which maltreatment and alcohol problems are associated; potential pertinent mediating or moderating mechanisms, such as emotional lability; and wh...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Bunford N,Wymbs BT,Dawson AE,Shorey RC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marijuana (MJ) refusal self-efficacy and obsessive/harmonious passion for MJ use are associated with use and related consequences but have not been examined simultaneously. We examined the relation among obsessive/harmonious passion for MJ use, refusal self-efficacy, frequency of use, and related consequences in an on...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Davis AK,Arterberry BJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2000, the voters of California approved the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), mandating that substance-abusing offenders who met the eligibility criteria receive treatment and not jail time. In preparation for implementation, the Santa Clara County Department of Alcohol and Drug Services Research In...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Wiley D,Beattie M,Nguyen H,Puckett K,Banerjee K,Poon W

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to identify social conditions, program factors, and client characteristics that predict retention because time in substance abuse treatment is associated with improved health, mood, and social functioning. Treatment dropouts also are at high risk for serious harms, including relapse. Most opioid-depend...

journal_title：Journal of psychoactive drugs

authors： Kayman DJ,Goldstein MF,Deren S,Rosenblum A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00