By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Cannabis & Marijuana News -- Current study results on Marijuana/Cannabis - Marijuana Usage have been published. According to news reporting from Providence, Rhode Island, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The present study used youth’s in vivo reports of subjective responses to cannabis while smoking in their natural environments to identify real-world mechanisms of topiramate treatment for cannabis misuse. Participants were 40 cannabis users (>= twice weekly in past 30 days), ages 15-24 years (47.5% female), with at least one cannabis use episode during the final 3 weeks of a 6-week, randomized clinical trial.”
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Brown University, “Youth reported subjective ‘high’ while smoking, stimulation, sedation, stress, craving, and grams of marijuana used in the natural environment via wireless electronic devices. Bayesian multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) evaluated mediation via indirect effect tests. Significant within (daily) and between (person) variability and distinctive within and between effects supported the MSEM approach. Subjective high while smoking was significantly reduced for youth in the topiramate condition, relative to placebo, and the indirect effect of reduced subjective high on total grams of cannabis smoked that day was significant. Indirect effects through other subjective responses were not significant. The results of this initial study suggest that altering subjective responses to smoking, specifically subjective high, may be a key target for developing adjunctive pharmacotherapies for cannabis misuse.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “More generally, this work provides an example for applying ecological momentary assessment and analytic techniques to evaluate mechanisms of behavior change in longitudinal data.”
For more information on this research see: Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Identify Mechanisms of Change: An Application From a Pharmacotherapy Trial With Adolescent Cannabis Users. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs , 2018;79(2):190-198. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs can be contacted at: Alcohol Res Documentation Inc Cent Alcohol Stud Rutgers Univ, C, O Deirdre English, 607 Allison Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8001, USA.
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting H.T. Padovano, Brown University, Center Alcohol & Addict Studies, Providence, RI 02912, United States.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2018.79.190. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-04-17), Findings from Brown University Update Understanding of Marijuana Usage (Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Identify Mechanisms of Change: An Application From a Pharmacotherapy Trial With Adolescent Cannabis Users), Cannabis & Marijuana News, 10, ISSN: 0000-0000, BUTTER® ID: 015492346
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