Predicting Attitude Toward Methamphetamine Use: The Role of Antidrug Campaign Exposure and Conversations About Meth in Montana

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam S. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Methamphetamine Use ◽  
Antidrug Campaign

Dreams and Nightmares

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Knepper
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
International Response ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Antidrug Campaign ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

Between the 1890s and the 1950s, drug smuggling became a global problem. The League of Nations played a pivotal role during the interwar period in promoting perceptions of “drug trafficking” and fashioning an international response. Drawing on archives in Geneva, London, and New York, as well as fiction, this essay examines the “dreamscape” of drug trafficking: the nightmare of the foreign trafficker and the dream of a worldwide scheme for drug control. It explores the fear of “reverse colonization” in relation to the drug trade and the British Empire before the First World War, explains the vision of police cooperation that shaped the League’s response to drug trafficking, and examines the concept of “organized crime” in relation to the League’s response. The discussion includes a look at the emergence of the role of the United States in the United Nations antidrug campaign after the Second World War.

scholarly journals Pulmonary Hypertension Roundtable: Metabolic Disease and PH

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-120
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Disease ◽  
Pulmonary Hypertension ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Clinical Database ◽  
Drug Induced ◽  
Methamphetamine Use ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Pulmonary Arterial

On June 20, 2018, Guest Editor Anna Ryan Hemnes, MD, gathered a group of pulmonary hypertension specialists by telephone to talk about the role of metabolic disease in PH. Among the participants in the animated discussion was Roham Zamanian, MD, Director of the Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He directs the Vera Moulton Wall Center clinical database and biobank and focuses his research on clinical characterization and impact of novel risk factors such as methamphetamine use, and biomarkers such as insulin resistance in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Readers will recall his participation in the previous issue's roundtable on drug-induced PH. Joining Dr Zamanian were Ioana Preston, MD, Pulmonary Function Lab Director; Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center; and Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension editor-in-chief Harrison W. Farber, MD.

scholarly journals A mindfulness-based, stress and coping model of craving in methamphetamine users

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0249489
Author(s):  
Massy Mutumba ◽  
Judith T. Moskowitz ◽  
Torsten B. Neilands ◽  
Ji-Young Lee ◽  
Samantha E. Dilworth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sexual Minority Men ◽  
Methamphetamine Use ◽  
And Coping

There is increasing interest in the role of mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions to optimize recovery from a substance use disorder (SUD). However, relatively little is known about the theory-based psychological and social pathways whereby mindfulness could have beneficial effects for managing a chronic, relapsing SUD. Informed by Revised Stress and Coping Theory, the present cross-sectional study examined affective, cognitive, and social pathways whereby mindfulness is associated with lower methamphetamine craving. A total of 161 HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using sexual minority men completed a screening visit for a randomized controlled trial. Using a hybrid structural equation model, we examined pathways whereby mindfulness is associated with lower methamphetamine craving. We found that greater mindfulness was directly associated with lower negative affect and higher positive affect as well as indirectly associated with less methamphetamine craving. Interestingly, the indirect association between mindfulness and methamphetamine craving appeared to be uniquely attributable to positive affect. Only positive affect was indirectly associated with lower methamphetamine craving via higher positive re-appraisal coping and greater self-efficacy for managing triggers for methamphetamine use. Methamphetamine craving was supported by moderate associations with greater substance use severity and more frequent methamphetamine use. These findings support the role of mindfulness in cultivating positive affect, which could be crucial to build the capacity of individuals to manage methamphetamine craving as a chronic stressor that threatens recovery from SUD.

Understanding Adolescent Vulnerability to Methamphetamine Use Disorder: The Role of Early Life Adversity, Impulse Control and Cognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (9) ◽  
pp. S348-S349
Author(s):  
Alexandre Guerin ◽  
Yvonne Bonomo ◽  
Andrew Lawrence ◽  
Susan Rossell ◽  
Jee Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Impulse Control ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Methamphetamine Use ◽  
Methamphetamine Use Disorder

scholarly journals Family conflict and depression in HIV-negative heterosexuals: The role of methamphetamine use.

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley J. Semple ◽  
Steffanie A. Strathdee ◽  
Jim Zians ◽  
Thomas L. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Methamphetamine Use ◽  
Hiv Negative

scholarly journals Assessing the severity of methamphetamine use disorder beyond the subjective craving report: the role of an attention bias test

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. e100019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiongdan Liang ◽  
Tifei Yuan ◽  
Xinyu Cao ◽  
Hao He ◽  
Jiemin Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attention Bias ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Reliable Indicator ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Methamphetamine Use ◽  
Addiction Severity ◽  
Methamphetamine Use Disorder ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Universal Health

BackgroundMethamphetamine (MA) is one of the most commonly abused illicit psychostimulant drugs and MA use disorder constitutes a universal health concern across the world. Despite many intervention approaches to MA use disorder, the indicator of addiction severity is mainly limited to subjective craving score to drug-related cues, which is influenced by many factors such as social approval and self-masking.AimThe present study investigates whether self-reported craving for drug use in response to MA cues is a reliable indicator for addiction severity in MA users, and then tests the validity of the cue-induced attention bias test in addiction severity assessment.MethodsFifty-two male MA users completed the cue-induced craving test and attention bias task, and were required to report clinical characteristics of addiction severity. For the attention bias test, subjects were required to discriminate the letter superimposed onto MA use-related or neutral scenes. The reaction time delay during MA-use condition relative to neutral condition was used as an index of the attention bias.ResultsThe results showed that 24 of the 52 MA users rated non-zero in cue-induced craving test, and they showed a significant attention bias to drug-related pictures. However, the other 28 users who rated zero in cue-induced craving evaluation showed a similar attention bias to drug-related cues. In addition, the attention bias to MA use-related cues was significantly and positively correlated with the clinical indexes of addiction severity, but the relationship was absent between subjective craving evaluation and the indexes of addiction severity.ConclusionThese results suggest that attention bias to MA cues may be a more reliable indicator than experiential craving report, especially when subjective craving is measured in the compulsory rehabilitation centre.

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