Mediators of drug treatment outcomes

Article Abstract:

Improvement in emotional well-being, cognitive functioning, and relationships plays a mediating role in the positive treatment outcomes of crack cocaine users. In an intensive treatment program involving cognitive behavioral model, improved relations had the strongest impact on reducing cocaine usage. Improvement in emotional well-being failed to effect cocaine usage behavior, and improvement in cognitive functioning was only moderately associated with reduced drug usage. The length of treatment is directly related to improvements in these psychosocial domains.

Care and treatment, Influence, Drug addicts, Drug abusers, Cognition, Interpersonal relations, Emotions

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The effects of cannabis on information-processing speed

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Inspection time (IT) task was used for comparing 22 heavy cannabis users and 22 noncannabis-using controls for determining the effects of cannabis use on information processing speed. The subacute cannabis users as compared to the noncannabis using controls showed slow information processing speed, which may be explained as withdrawal effects or tolerance development due to long-term use of cannabis.

United States, Science & research, Research, Drug use, Human information processing, Cannabis (Plant)

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Understanding hard-core drug use among urban Puerto Rican women in high-risk neighborhoods

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to determine the incidence and prevalence of hard-core drug (HCD) use and to explore the predictors of HCD use in a three-wave longitudinal study of women ages 18-35 living in urban areas of high traffic Puerto Rico. Prevention programs for HCD must consider strategies to promote social mobility and empowerment and to mitigate violence against women.

Puerto Rico, Health aspects, Women

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