Monthly Archives: May 2025

Furthermore, only students who attended school participated in the survey, so the study findings may not be generalizable to students not attending school; of note, data regarding the percentage of students in attendance during the period of data collection are … Continue reading →

A crucial function of sustained inhabitance is to perform counter-surveillance efforts. Cultivators are trained by cartel employees, often veterans of the Mexican army, and equipped with weapons ranging from shotguns to assault rifles. A station is setup at a vantage … Continue reading →

Law enforcement and US Forest Service reports indicate that Drug Trafficking Organizations control a significant portion of Cannabis cultivation in the United States and are establishing an increasing number of both indoor and outdoor growing sites. The primary DTOs operating in … Continue reading →

The Netherlands pioneered the experimentation with depenalization strategies in 1976 when it formalized the use of the expediency principle to guide the enforcement of drug prohibitions. Based on this principle, Dutch prosecutors are instructed not to bring charges when cannabis use … Continue reading →

Using electronic health record data, we aimed to: Determine the risk of ED and inpatient visits each year from 2010 to 2014 for MUD patients relative to controls; Examine differences in the rates of emergency department and inpatient utilization between MUD patients and … Continue reading →

Longitudinal research with diverse groups of youth is needed, including multi-ethnic youth, so we can examine how use in middle school and high school may affect functioning in high school. Fourth, most studies that examine how trajectories affect outcomes tend … Continue reading →

Moreover, models incorporating age, frequency and years of tobacco smoking with marijuana accounted for 25-44% of variance in adolescent nicotine dependence. Interestingly, CPD was only minimally associated with the frequency of marijuana use and made minimal contribution to the model … Continue reading →

Data were collected in November 2017. 3. Parenting-Framed Messages These parenting-framed messages were developed with guidelines from previous research focusing on parenting styles and attitudes and perceptions of adolescent risky behaviors . The messages were framed with respect to either of the … Continue reading →

Instead our results converge with past reports that show continued linear declines in extraversion in late adolescence in male youth , and stable levels of extraversion in late adolescence for female youth . As described in a recent review, findings on … Continue reading →

Some methodological limitations should be considered. First, preexisting differences in neurocognition, which may increase risk for substance use , cannot be ruled out in this cross-sectional study. Second, given the studies suggesting decreased motivation associated with marijuana use , the … Continue reading →