Marijuana was illegal to possess or sell in California for 103 years. The state first banned it 1913, grouping with opiates and cocaine on a list of prohibited vice drugs adopted six years earlier, meaning that subject the same penalties as these other, far more dangerous, until 1961. Initially framed “Mexican” drug, marijuana prohibition enforcement began periphery Los Angeles older Latino nei...

OBJECTIVE The provision of information appears to be an important feature of self-esteem. The present studies examined whether self-esteem possesses a status-signaling property such that an individual's level of self-esteem is associated with how the individual is perceived by others. METHOD In Study 1, trained judges watched brief videos of 157 participants and rated targets as having higher...

Mobile phones are popular devices that may generate problems for a section of the community. A previous study using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire found that extraverts with low self-esteem reported more problems with their mobile phone use. The present study used the NEO FI and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory to predict the self reported mobile phone use of 112 participants. Multiple ...

Krystyna Zdziechowska1, Izabela Czyżak1, Sławomir Murawiec2, Katarzyna Prot2: 1TacyJakJa.pl 29 Czarnieckiego Str., 05-502 Piaseczno, Poland. 2 Mental Health Centre, The Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 9 Sobieskiego Str., 02-957 Warszawa, Poland. Correspondence address: Sławomir Murawiec, Mental Health Centre, The Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego Str. 9, 02-957 Warszawa,...

Researchers have suggested that the psychoticism (P) personality dimension of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire may be largely redundant with the agreeableness (A) and conscientiousness (C) constructs of the five-factor model. Little research has examined the distinctiveness of these constructs. We utilized a multi-wave, multi-method design to examine the ability of C, A, and P to uniquely ...

BACKGROUND In New York City (NYC), the annual mortality rate is higher for accidental drug overdoses than for homicides; cocaine and opiates are the drugs most frequently associated with drug overdose deaths. We assessed trends and correlates of cocaine- and opiate-related overdose deaths in NYC during 1990-2000. METHODS Data were collected from the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (O...