Women experience alarming levels of physical and sexual assault, which may lead to escalation of substance use. Reciprocally, evidence from cross-sectional studies indicates that substance use may increase risk of assault. To date, directionality of…
Papers in Drug Abuse
Drug Abuse papers in Psychology, A
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BACKGROUND: Addiction-focused mutual-help group participation is associated with better substance use disorder (SUD) treatment outcomes. However, little has been documented regarding which types of mutual-help organizations patients attend, what…
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Copeland, J., Frewen, A., & Elkins, K. (2009). Management of cannabis use and related issues. A clinicians guide. Sydney: National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, University of New South Wales.
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Amphetamine has been shown to canalize or direct the activity of a young rat towards ethologically relevant stimuli. In the five-day-old, amphetamine increases the speed of approach to the nipple of an anesthetized dam; in the 15-day-old,…
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OBJECTIVE: The authors compared the efficacy of a multicomponent behavioral treatment and drug abuse counseling for cocaine-dependent individuals. METHOD: The 38 patients were enrolled in outpatient treatment and were randomly assigned to the two…
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Economic concepts can be used to assess how drug prices affect consumption patterns. Increases in price for a commodity typically result in reductions in consumption. Demand is considered elastic if decreases in consumption are proportionally…
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Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is associated with increased problem severity in treatment-seeking opioid-dependent patients. Treatment studies have reported mixed results but generally show that patients with APD make progress that is often…
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The Tufts Addiction Research Center Inventory-Morphine Benzedrine Group (ARCI-MBG) scale was designed to measure benzodiazepine-induced mood elevation. The reliability and validity of the Tufts ARCI-MBG scale were determined in 64 subjects with a…
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The basolateral amygdala plays an important role in the acquisition and expression of both fear conditioning and fear extinction. To understand how a single structure could encode these opposite memories, we developed a biophysical network model of…
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This study used a survey design to compare the drinking behaviors of Black and White students from two urban high schools in the city of Cleveland. Data are presented from 1,096 students who completed a 28-item self-report questionnaire measuring…
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RATIONALE: There is converging evidence for impairments in decision-making in chronic substance users. In the light of findings that substance abuse is associated with disruptions of the functioning of the striato-thalamo-orbitofrontal circuits, it…
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Liver Function Test (LFT) abnormalities are frequently observed in narcotic addicts. However, the role of alcohol in producing such changes remains unclear. In order to evaluate the effects of alcohol in producing LFT elevations as well as the use…
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The consequences of a reduction in the presynaptic protein, SNAP-25, were investigated to determine the neurochemical basis of the marked hyperlocomotor activity in coloboma (Cm/+) mice. SNAP-25 is part of the minimal presynaptic machinery necessary…
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BACKGROUND: Patients with mania show a behavioral bias toward positive information in an emotional go/no go task. This is the converse of the bias toward negative information seen in unipolar depression that we have recently related to the abnormal…
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A statistical association between a history of substance abuse and a history of abortion has been identified in several studies, but this association has not yet been thoroughly analyzed. This study draws on a subset of data from a reproductive…
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Male college students constitute one of a number of at-risk populations susceptible to receiving and transferring sexually transmitted infections. Interventions designed to increase condom use have produced mixed results, but increasing motivation…
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AIMS: To develop a reliable and valid brief measure of coping self-efficacy for substance users to serve the needs of clinicians and researchers who desire a global measure of a client's confidence across high-risk situations. The eight-item global…
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Cocaine is a psychostimulant and a drug widely abused by humans. Cocaine elicits its effects primarily by blocking the activity of the dopamine (DA) transporter, leading to elevated levels of extracellular DA in areas receiving dopaminergic…
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Though widely used and presumed effective in practice, some scholars (Dishion et al., 1999) have raised the concern that group therapy for adolescents with substance use disorder and a range of deviancy has the potential for causing iatrogenic…
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