Formerly imprisoned polydrug users’ narratives about unemployment

Imprisoned knowledge: Criminals’ beliefs about deception

Purpose. This paper is a survey examining beliefs about cues to deception held by prison inmates, prison personnel and students. In line with the ideas about more beneŽ cial learning structures in the environment of criminals and Ž ndings from previous studies, we predicted that the beliefs held by prison inmates would be most consistent with the general pattern found in studies examining objec...

Reduced Attentional Scope in Cocaine Polydrug Users

Cocaine is Europe's second preferred recreational drug after cannabis but very little is known about possible cognitive impairments in the upcoming type of recreational cocaine user (monthly consumption). We asked whether recreational use of cocaine impacts early attentional selection processes. Cocaine-free polydrug controls (n = 18) and cocaine polydrug users (n = 18) were matched on sex, age...

Emotional Intelligence Impaired in Ecstasy - Polydrug Users ?

Everyday memory deficits in ecstasy-polydrug users.

Recent research suggests that not only does the use of recreational drugs impact on working memory functioning, but more ;everyday' aspects of memory (e.g. remembering to do something in the future) are also affected. Forty-three ecstasy-polydrug users and 51 non-ecstasy users were recruited from a university population. Each participant completed the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and ...

Evidence for selective executive function deficits in ecstasy/polydrug users.

Previous research has suggested that the separate aspects of executive functioning are differentially affected by ecstasy use. Although the inhibition process appears to be unaffected by ecstasy use, it is unclear whether this is true of heavy users under conditions of high demand. Tasks loading on the updating process have been shown to be adversely affected by ecstasy use. However, it remains...