Marijuana Abuse

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A dimensional approach to understanding severity estimates and risk correlates of marijuana abuse and dependence in adults. 
  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder. 
  • A longitudinal study of cannabis use and mental health from adolescence to early adulthood. 
  • ADHD, substance use disorders, and psychostimulant treatment: current literature and treatment guidelines. 
  • Amygdala reactivity is inversely related to level of cannabis use in individuals with comorbid cannabis dependence and major depression. 
  • An item response theory modeling of alcohol and marijuana dependences: a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Associations Between Cannabis Use and Physical Health Problems in Early Midlife: A Longitudinal Comparison of Persistent Cannabis vs Tobacco Users. 
  • Associations between adolescent cannabis use and neuropsychological decline: a longitudinal co-twin control study. 
  • Brain morphological changes and early marijuana use: a magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography study. 
  • Burden of Persistent Vomiting With Cannabis Use Disorder: Report From 55,549 Hospitalizations in the United States. 
  • Cannabinoid exposure and altered DNA methylation in rat and human sperm. 
  • Cannabis Use Disorder and Epilepsy: A Cross-National Analysis of 657 072 Hospitalized Patients. 
  • Cannabis Use and Disorder From Childhood to Adulthood in a Longitudinal Community Sample With American Indians. 
  • Cannabis use disorder among atrial fibrillation admissions, 2008-2018. 
  • Cannabis use disorder and increased risk of arrhythmia-related hospitalization in young adults. 
  • Cannabis use disorder, anger, and violence in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. 
  • Cannabis use disorders are comparatively prevalent among nonwhite racial/ethnic groups and adolescents: a national study. 
  • Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study. 
  • Cannabis use is associated with potentially heritable widespread changes in autism candidate gene DLGAP2 DNA methylation in sperm. 
  • Comorbidity of conduct and depressive problems at sixth grade: substance use outcomes across adolescence. 
  • Daily Marijuana Use is Associated with Missed Clinic Appointments Among HIV-Infected Persons Engaged in HIV Care. 
  • Development of substance use and psychiatric comorbidity in an epidemiologic study of white and American Indian young adolescents the Great Smoky Mountains Study. 
  • Differences in behavioral health disorders and unmet treatment needs between medical marijuana users and recreational marijuana users: Results from a national adult sample. 
  • Do cannabis use disorders increase medication non-compliance in schizophrenia?: United States Nationwide inpatient cross-sectional study. 
  • Does treatment readiness enhance the response of African American substance users to Motivational Enhancement Therapy? 
  • Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Marijuana Initiative Campaign on high-sensation-seeking adolescents. 
  • Evaluating brief screeners to discriminate between drug use disorders in a sample of treatment-seeking adults. 
  • GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal influence of schizophrenia. 
  • Genome-wide association study identifies a novel locus for cannabis dependence. 
  • HIV risk behavior among patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders: associations with mania and drug abuse. 
  • HIV risk behavior in opioid dependent adults seeking detoxification treatment: an exploratory comparison of heroin and oxycodone users. 
  • High prevalence of substance use disorders among adolescents who use marijuana and inhalants. 
  • How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment. 
  • Impact of a computerized intervention for high distress intolerance on cannabis use outcomes: A randomized controlled trial. 
  • Insufficient Evidence to Support or Refute the Association between Head and Neck Cancer and Marijuana Use. 
  • Intellectual, neurocognitive, and academic achievement in abstinent adolescents with cannabis use disorder. 
  • Letter to the editor: Critique of Bahorik et al. (2013)--'Under-reporting of drug use among individuals with schizophrenia: prevalence and predictors'. 
  • Long-Term Cannabis Use and Cognitive Reserves and Hippocampal Volume in Midlife. 
  • Longitudinal association between frequency of substance use and quality of life among adolescents receiving a brief outpatient intervention. 
  • Maintenance Check-ups Following Treatment for Cannabis Dependence. 
  • Marijuana use and acute myocardial infarction: A systematic review of published cases in the literature. 
  • Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample. 
  • Medical symptoms associated with tobacco smoking with and without marijuana abuse among crack cocaine-dependent patients. 
  • Memory Impairment in HIV-Infected Individuals with Early and Late Initiation of Regular Marijuana Use. 
  • Mental disorders and violence in a total birth cohort: results from the Dunedin Study. 
  • Mobile contingency management as an adjunctive treatment for co-morbid cannabis use disorder and cigarette smoking. 
  • Monoacylglycerol lipase (MGLL) polymorphism rs604300 interacts with childhood adversity to predict cannabis dependence symptoms and amygdala habituation: Evidence from an endocannabinoid system-level analysis. 
  • Motives for cannabis use in high-risk adolescent users. 
  • Neural mechanisms of risky decision-making and reward response in adolescent onset cannabis use disorder. 
  • Neurosteroid Levels in Patients With Bipolar Disorder and a History of Cannabis Use Disorders. 
  • Pathways from proactive and reactive aggression to substance use. 
  • Performance of the Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Medication, and Other Substance Use (TAPS) Tool for Substance Use Screening in Primary Care Patients. 
  • Perinatal effects of drugs of abuse. 
  • Persistence and perceived consequences of cannabis use and dependence among young adults: implications for policy. 
  • Predicting Persistent, Limited, and Delayed Problematic Cannabis Use in Early Adulthood: Findings From a Longitudinal Study. 
  • Predictors of relapse during treatment and treatment completion among marijuana-dependent adolescents in an intensive outpatient substance abuse program. 
  • Preparedness for healthy ageing and polysubstance use in long-term cannabis users: a population-representative longitudinal study. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of cannabis use and dependence in young New Zealanders. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of cannabis use in an outpatient VA posttraumatic stress disorder clinic. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of treatment utilization among adults with cannabis use disorder in the United States. 
  • Problem alcohol use and healthcare utilization among persons with cannabis use disorder in the United States. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of motivational enhancement therapy with nontreatment-seeking adolescent cannabis users: a further test of the teen marijuana check-up. 
  • Reduced cannabis use after low-dose naltrexone addition to opioid detoxification. 
  • Relationship of Cannabis Use Disorder and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): An Analysis of 6.8 Million Hospitalizations in the United States. 
  • Reply to Rogeberg and Daly: No evidence that socioeconomic status or personality differences confound the association between cannabis use and IQ decline. 
  • Risk of neonatal and childhood morbidity among preterm infants exposed to marijuana. 
  • Sex Differences in Cannabis Use Disorder Diagnosis Involved Hospitalizations in the United States. 
  • Synergistic effects of marijuana abuse and HIV infection on neural activation during a cognitive interference task. 
  • Temporal dynamics of the relationship between change in depressive symptoms and cannabis use in adolescents receiving psychosocial treatment for cannabis use disorder. 
  • Testing the effects of peer socialization versus selection on alcohol and marijuana use among treated adolescents. 
  • The Impact of Cannabis Use Disorder on Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Iraq/Afghanistan-Era Veterans with and without Mental Health Disorders. 
  • The association between substance use and sub-optimal HIV treatment engagement among HIV-infected female sex workers in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • The importance of conduct problems and depressive symptoms in predicting adolescent substance use. 
  • The respiratory effects of cannabis dependence in young adults. 
  • The targets of violence committed by young offenders with alcohol dependence, marijuana dependence and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: findings from a birth cohort. 
  • The variety of ecstasy/MDMA users: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on alcohol and related conditions. 
  • Trends in cannabis use disorders among racial/ethnic population groups in the United States. 
  • Trends in cannabis use prior to first presentation with schizophrenia, in South-East London between 1965 and 1999. 
  • Which adolescents develop persistent substance dependence in adulthood? Using population-representative longitudinal data to inform universal risk assessment. 
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  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine