A regional industrial land program would bring awareness to the state of industrial uses and best practices in other cities, help to ensure the competitiveness of the Bay Area region relative to other regions, and provide more legitimacy to a city’s argument for preserving industrial land. As an industrial land expert noted, “not every city…
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The proposed model’s pathways led from psychological trauma to personality and substance problems
Similarly, poverty, family dysfunction, parental psychopathology and substance abuse, and trauma have been linked to negative developmental outcomes for adolescents . Hence, resilience as a process can be found internally, i.e., residing within the individual, and externally, i.e., residing outside of the individual.The study was concerned with both internal and external factors of resilience to…
The variables selected for missing value replacement were age and alcohol screen result
Since the dependent variable, total GCS, was not selected for imputation/replacement, it was recommended and deemed appropriate to utilize the Replacing Missing Values function in SPSS to establish estimates for a select group of variables with missing data values. Replacing Missing Values method, a different form of imputation, allows the creation of new variables from…
The quality assessment of observational cohort and cross-sectional studies tool was utilized
A traumatic brain injury, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , is a disturbance of the brain’s normal function that occurs when an individual sustains a blow, jolt, or bump to the head, or sustains a penetrating head injury . Traumatic brain injuries can lead to a variety of secondary conditions…
There is a bidirectional relationship between homelessness and incarceration
In California, the overall prevalence of youth cigarette smoking continues to decline, even with the emergence of ANDS.We conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with 49 Californian youth between the ages of 15-25, who reported ever vaping nicotine, to consider whether and how the meanings and role of vaping varies by youth’s pathways of initiation of vaping…
It is also altered by both the acute and chronic administration of various psychoactive substances
Especially notable are impairments in identifying and responding to stimuli that are either salient or novel.The P300 event-related potential is a physiological index of the cognitive processes elicited by such task-relevant or novel deviant stimuli . Generators of the P300 are widely distributed across both cortex and subcortex. However, the scalp-recorded P300 response to an auditory…
A trend among young people is smoking marijuana cigars
Both the cross-sectional and longitudinal studies highlight individual and socio-contextual factors that may shape HIV risk. Of note is in the emergence of brain imaging data to this body of literature. Thayer et al. found that network connectivity strength of the dorsal default mode network was associated with initial and longitudinal trajectories of alcohol use and that alcohol…
Alcohol and marijuana use are common in adolescence
We retrospectively reviewed health records of patients referred to the outpatient substance use program affiliated with the medical school. Information collected from the records included the patients’ background characteristics, reasons for ED visit, current substance use, mental health symptoms, buprenorphine use during their ED visit, and engagement in outpatient substance use treatment after ED discharge. Variables…
The relevance of these values is that adolescent initiation of substance use plays a key role in this equation
Specifically, more than half of adolescents have tried at least one substance by age 18, with many using at least one substance in a “harmful way”, such as binge use. Due to the inherently illicit behaviors that must be engaged in to access and utilize most substances, many youth use substances in ways that increase…
Smokeless only users had significantly reduced odds of marijuana use compared to cigarette only users
Our results do not support prior findings of a negative association between marijuana and PPR use. Boehnke, Litinas, and Clauw report that among individuals with chronic pain, use of medical marijuana was negatively associated with opioid use. Further, legalization of medical marijuana has been correlated with a drop in the number of hospitalizations attributed to…