The term recovery has been recently re-launched within UK drug policy, with focus on individuals' engaging in treatment and achieving change. What constitutes recovery and the process of recovery is misunderstood, due to the term previously being attributed to an individual reac…
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The current dissertation focuses on weighted networks, or networks where individual relationships are assigned quantitative measures of tie strength. Most social network research treats social ties as binary variables in which relationships are either present or absent. However,…
Objective: Guided by the theoretical Health Behavior Model (HBM), we examined predisposing (socio-demographic characteristics and health beliefs), enabling (perceptions of conditions that facilitate or impede service utilization) and need (mental health status, functional state …
The opioid epidemic constitutes one of the worst drug crises in the history of U.S. State-level policies, in general, have done little to prevent prescription opioid abuse. A noteworthy exception to other clinical efforts to curb opioid abuse is marijuana. Despite preliminary ev…
The use of faith-based organizations (FBO) for health promotion in vulnerable communities has the potential to improve mental health outcomes by providing resources to community members. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to explore how faith leaders perceived the…
This text demonstrates that my work on young people who are exploited through prostitution and young people involved in problematic drug use in Britain at the end ofthe twentieth and beginning ofthe twenty-first century constitutes a significant contribution to advancing our kno…
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 prescribes stringent minimum punishment of rigorous imprisonment for ten years and a fine of Rs.One lakh, for most of the drug offences. In 1989, the Act was amended so as to provide also for the imposition of death senten…
Decision making is an important cognitive process that can become dysfunctional when exposed to drugs of abuse. Those who suffer from substance use disorders often have increased rates of impulsivity, including delay discounting, a type of impulsivity comprised of magnitude and …
The purpose of the study was to determine differences in behaviorally disordered marijuana and non-marijuana abusing adolescents referred to family therapy. One hundred and eighty-eight male and female adolescents, as well as caretakers, were compared examining archival data obt…
The influence of experience during brain development was investigated on juvenile behavior, adult amphetamine sensitization, and neuronal structural plasticity in rats. Two experiential factors (i.e., tactile stimulation and stress) were studied either before or soon after birth…