While drug checking services can serve to minimize harms and support rapid monitoring of drug supplies to detect emerging drug trends and potential epidemics, uptake of these services is often limited. As awareness of and attitudes toward drug checking can impact uptake, the present study examined these variables and associated determinants among Australian university residential college...
Cannabis use is associated with psychiatric comorbidities, and the use of elta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) produces different neurophysiological and pharmacological effects. This study estimated the strength of associations between vaping of THC and CBD with depressive and anxiety symptoms in adolescents. Observational data were drawn from three years of the nationally...
Therapeutic claims about many psychedelic drugs have not been evaluated in any studies of even modest rigor. The science of psychedelic drugs is strengthening, however, making it easier to differentiate some promising findings amid the hype that suffuses this research area. Ketamine has risks of adverse side effects (e.g., addiction and cystitis), but multiple studies suggest it can benefit...
Addictive BehaviorsDecember 1, 2021G. Chan, Tianze Sun, Carmen C. W. Lim et al.
AIM To test the age, cohort, and period effect on past-year use trends in psychedelic drugs and ecstasy. METHOD Data were from a repeated cross-sectional nationally representative household survey in Australia conducted every three years between 2001 and 2019. An age-period-cohort model was used to test the effect of age, birth cohort, and period on past year psychedelic and ecstasy use....