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Ilana Berlowitz; Ernesto García Torres; Juan Celidonio Ruiz Macedo; Ursula Wolf; Caroline Maake; Chantal Martin-Soelch – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Although the tobacco plant has been employed as a medicinal and sacred herb by Indigenous cultures across the Americas, its usage drastically changed after the 15th-century colonial arrival; its large-scale commodification and global marketing once brought to Europe lead to hedonic and addictive uses harmful to health. As a consequence, tobacco…
Descriptors: American Indians, Therapy, Smoking, Pilot Projects
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Keough, Matthew T.; Hendershot, Christian S.; Wardell, Jeffrey D.; Bagby, R. Michael – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objectives: Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is associated with cannabis use. People high in AS may use cannabis to cope with elevated anxiety. This association is consistently supported in the literature. However, we have much to learn about the mechanisms of the AS pathway to cannabis use. We aimed to examine negative urgency--the tendency to act…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Marijuana, College Students, Two Year College Students
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Viney, Linda L.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Interviewed drug addicts (N=60) in treatment and recorded descriptions of their lives. Compared their scores on a measure of anxiety with those of two other groups of people matched for sex and age. The chief element differentiating the groups was shame. Addicts expressed more guilt, loneliness, and vague worries. (BH)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Drug Addiction, Foreign Countries
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Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed M. – Death Studies, 2005
The Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) was administered, individually, to 7 groups (N=765) of Egyptian normal participants (non-clinical), anxiety disorder patients, and patients suffering from schizophrenia (males and females), and addicts (males only). They were generally matched as groups according to age, occupation, and education. The…
Descriptors: Patients, Schizophrenia, Drug Addiction, Death
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Bull, Leona; Burke, Ronan; Walsh, Siobhan; Whitehead, Emma – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
Examined attitudes toward smoking, current smoking behavior, mental health difficulties, and nicotine addiction among 38 pregnant women, mothers of young children, and their partners in East Surrey, England. Found that 11 female respondents presented symptoms of depression, anxiety, or social dysfunction. Smokers did not differ from ex-smokers or…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Drug Addiction
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Chen, Gila – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
This study examined differences in the sense of coherence, anxiety, depression, hostility, behavior, and meaning in life among Israeli prisoners recovering from drug and alcohol addiction over various time periods (6-24 months), and without therapeutic intervention (natural recovery). Ninety-eight abstinent prisoners were divided into two groups:…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Substance Abuse, Alcoholism, Depression (Psychology)