Their engagement in armed standoffs with law enforcement scouts has increased in conjunction with the occurrence of gunfire. By shooting at site detection scouts, cultivators create a two to three day window during which they harvest all of the buds they can carry out, and flee the area before a larger task force can return.…
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People of all ages and backgrounds consume marijuana for a variety of reasons
Marijuana has a great cultural significance which is apparent in clothing, artwork, music, and many other forms.It is a constant and accessible commodity, even more so than alcohol to some, and has become deeply ingrained in California culture. Its accessibility makes it easy for people to use regularly and to create substance based relationships where…
The net balance of benefits and drawbacks from vaping-related apps likely depends on app content
Extrapolation of the results of this study is limited due to the small sample of women – pregnant or non-pregnant – tested in the ED for drugs and alcohol. An unknown portion of women with substance use may have been identified by history or observation and were not in need of additional testing. Additionally, in…
The all-inclusive model was then reduced one variable at a time to determine the best prediction model
McFadden’s pseudo-R2 was also calculated, comparing each model to the null model. The predictors considered in the multivariate models were age, severity of illness measured by the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score, cumulative dose amounts of both opioids and benzodiazepines from time of first administration to a WS assessment day, days on both opioids…
The report approvingly quoted a narcotics officer who claimed that “Marijuana has a worse effect than heroin
Our multiple-disciplinary approach, combining the PCR data with literary-historical analysis and AMS-based 14C dating of the textile samples, has enabled us to unearth this little known aspect of textile history e i.e. ancient hemp in the Land of Israel.Progress in the treatment of schizophrenia has been hindered by an inadequate understanding of the pathogenesis of…
The server component is also responsible for the storage of the collected information and the computation of derived scores
See Table 1 for all measures in the baseline and year 1 substance use module. Additional measures will likely be added starting at year 2 follow-up sessions.The first portion of the ABCD substance use protocol includes a brief introduction that operationalizes the term “drug use,” repeats that all answers are confidential, and then proceeds to ask…
California is the most populous state with the longest history of medical marijuana legalization in the US
Notably, as commonly seen with other CM studies, patients ultimately earned approximately 50-60% of the maximum amount available in prizes in the $560 condition but only approximately 25-30% of the maximum amount available in prizes in the $250 condition = 14.52, p <.001. This and other studies examining the effect of the magnitude of rewards on outcomes suggest that…
Cannabis use has been increasingly prevalent among adolescents and young adults
Tremblay et al. reported that chronic alcohol consumption did not result in a reduction in lipid intake and that a dietary regimen that provided a large fraction of energy in the form of alcohol increased the risk for a positive energy balance in a free-living state. It appears that alcohol may have a fat-sparing effect…
Alcohol misuse is one of the leading contributors to preventable mortality and morbidity worldwide
Prior studies from this laboratory found that vapor inhalation of THC using an e-cigarette based system decreases body temperature, with an observed nadir similar to the effects of 10-20 mg/kg THC, i.p. but with a duration of action that was much shorter . These studies also found anti-nociceptive effects of inhaled THC that were comparable in…
All behavioral responses were automatically recorded by Med Associates software
Most of the imputation strategies resulted in a significant improvement in estimates of substance use data when compared to estimates relying on complete case data, which was especially true in the case of a ‘rare’ outcome such as heroin use. However, MI performed the most favorably regardless of the prevalence of the outcome or the level…