Journal of Substance Use
October 3, 2026
Philip George Harris
Background Ketamine use has increased in recent years, with growing recognition of associated physical, psychological, and cognitive harms. Existing assessment approaches, largely derived from dependence-based models, may be insufficiently sensitive to the multi-domain and progressive nature of ketamine-related harm, particularly in its earlier stages.Methods A vignette-based inter-rater...
Journal of Substance Use
February 7, 2023
M. Ergelen, M. Yalçın, Fikret Ferzan Gıynaş et al.
ABSTRACT Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Cannabis use disorder and psychosis are rare but serious comorbidities seen after TBI. Recent studies indicate that the use of cannabis for self-medication may increase after TBI. Schizophrenia-like psychosis (SLP) is also seen, generally showing a late and gradual onset after TBI. Especially in...
Journal of Substance Use
February 14, 2022
Tara G Bautista, Hortensia Amaro
Objective: This study assessed the preintervention predictors of participant initial satisfaction and uptake of mindfulness practices during an MBI (Moment-by-Moment in Women's Recovery). Methods: Data from 100 women (Mage = 32.38 years, 60% Latina) in residential SUD treatment randomly assigned to the MBI were used to assess baseline participant demographics and clinical characteristics and...
Journal of Substance Use
August 17, 2021
Chia-Heng Lin, Chia-Hsiang Chan
1 citation
Background The trend of legalizing medical cannabis is related to its increased illicit use worldwide. In Taiwan, cannabis has become the fifth most used illicit substance, with continuous increases in its use since 2018; yet, the potential risk of adverse mental health due to cannabis use has not been sufficiently emphasized.Methods In this study, we present the findings from a case series of...
Journal of Substance Use
May 21, 2019
Sascha Thal, J. Daniels, Henrik Jungaberle
11 citations
ABSTRACT Background: Childhood trauma severity is associated with the level of subsequent substance use as well as with the self-reported severity of dissociation. Classic psychedelics and dissociatives target neurotransmitter systems thought to be involved in the onset of dissociative symptoms and may evoke severe and long-lasting symptoms of depersonalization in some users. However, it is...
Journal of Substance Use
March 4, 2019
Tamonud Modak, Roshan Bhad, Ravindra Rao
7 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a semisynthetic compound with strong psychoactive properties. LSD has been used as an adjunct to psychotherapy and treatment for various forms of drug addiction as well as a drug of abuse by the hippie counterculture movement of the 1960s. The literature regarding LSD is limited, and it has hardly been studied after it was banned in the 1970s. LSD is known to...
Journal of Substance Use
February 20, 2018
Khary K. Rigg, Amanda Sharp
42 citations
Recent data show that MDMA (3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine) related deaths (MRDs) are on the rise in several countries. This rise in MRDs has caught the attention of public health officials and treatment practitioners. Although MDMA is not a new drug, misinformation regarding the root causes of MRDs is still widespread. For example, MRDs continue to be reported as “overdoses” in the media...
Journal of Substance Use
January 20, 2016
Stéphanie Baggio, Stanislas Spilka, Joseph Studer et al.
9 citations
Aims: This study investigated patterns and trajectories of substance use, with a special focus on illicit drugs other than cannabis. It examined both patterns and trajectories of use among a general population-based sample. Methods: We used data from the 2011 French ESCAPAD survey of French 17-year-olds to assess exposure and age of initiation of 14 licit and illicit drugs (N=23,882). Latent...
Journal of Substance Use
October 3, 2011
David Scott Black, Steve Y Sussman, C. Anderson Johnson et al.
57 citations
Mindfulness refers to an enhanced attention to and awareness of present moment experience. This study examined how trait mindfulness, as measured with six items from Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, might influence adolescent cigarette smoking frequency through its impact on depressive affect, anger affect and perceived stress mediators. Self-reported data from Chinese adolescents (N =...
Journal of Substance Use
July 30, 2010
R. L. Carhart-Harris, D. J. Nutt
108 citations
This study used a web-based questionnaire to investigate user perceptions of the benefits and harms of hallucinogenic drug use. Over 600 forms were submitted. Users were asked to comment on the acute and prolonged effects of different drugs and to provide more specific information on how particular drugs have harmed and/or helped them. Subjects reported relatively less harm associated with the...
Journal of Substance Use
April 1, 2010
Jean‐Jacques Breton, Christophe Huỳnh, Sylvie Raymond et al.
6 citations
The case of a bipolar 17-year-old girl who developed prolonged vivid hallucinations and a dissociative state involving self-destructive behaviour following the use of Salvia divinorum is presented. The herb has mostly short-term (10–15 min) hallucinogenic properties. Salvatorin A, the main active compound, is a highly selective agonist of the kappa-opioid receptor. The plant is available at...