Acculturation and marijuana and cocaine use: findings from HHANES 1982-84.

cocaine, marijuana, hypertension and cardiovascular effects

cocaine is used by more than 14 million people worldwide, about 0.3 percent of the global population age is 15 to 64 years. after alcohol, cocaine is the most common cause of acute drug-related emergency department visits in the united states. cocaine consumption is more frequently associated with acute cardiovascular illness.  cocaine stimulates α 1 , α 2 , β 1 and β 2 adrenergic receptors thr...

Rules regarding Marijuana and Its Use in Personal Residences: Findings from Marijuana Users and Nonusers Recruited through Social Media

Recent changes in policy and social norms related to marijuana use have increased its use and concern about how/where marijuana should be used. We aimed to characterize rules regarding marijuana and its use in homes. We recruited 1,567 US adults aged 18-34 years through Facebook advertisements to complete an online survey assessing marijuana use, social factors, perceptions of marijuana, and ru...

Psychoactive Plants: Opium Poppy, Marijuana, and Cocaine

Opium, cocaine and marijuana in American history.

DAVID F. MUSTO is professor of psychiatry at the Child Study Center and professor of the history of medicine at Yale University. He earned his medical degree at the University of Washington and received his master's In the history of science and medicine from Yale. Mus to began studying the history of drug and alcohol use in the U.S. when he worked at the National Institute of Mental Health in ...

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Criminologists have largely neglected the influence of acculturation in the etiology of Hispanic drug use and delinquency. This is somewhat surprising since a long line of research from several disciplines has consistently linked higher levels of acculturation to greater incidence of negative social, health, and behavioral outcomes. A major shortcoming of this extant literature, however, is its...