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Determinants of Marijuana Use, Abuse and Dependence

2009· article· en· W99102206 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Manoj Sharma

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of alcohol and drug education · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCannabis and Cannabinoid Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHashishCannabisPsychiatryCannabis DependencePublic healthPsychologyClinical psychologySubstance abuseMedicineEnvironmental health
DOInot available

Abstract

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Marijuana is a preparation from the Cannabis plant that is smoked. The active ingredient in Cannabis is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Hashish, charas, ganja, sinsemilla, bhang, and hash oil are some forms in which Cannabis is used. Marijuana or Cannabis use is becoming a major public health problem. According to Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) done in 2007 the percentage of students that used marijuana one or more times during their lives was 38.1% (95% CI: 35.5-40.7) and those that used marijuana in the past 30 days was 19.7% (95% CI: 17.8-21.8) (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008). In a prevalence study of adults in 2001-02 in the United States it was found that 4.1% of the adults were marijuana users in the past year (Compton, Grant, Colliver, Glantz, & Stinson, 2004). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) has defined marijuana abuse as repeated instances of use under hazardous conditions; repeated, clinically meaningful impairment in social/occupational/educational functioning; or legal problems related to marijuana use; and marijuana dependence as increased tolerance, compulsive use, impaired control, and continued use despite physical and psychological problems caused or exacerbated by use. Compton and colleagues (2004) found that marijuana abuse increased from 0.9% in 1991-92 to 1.1% in 2001-02, and marijuana dependence increased from 0.3% to 0.4%. In absolute numbers this translates to an increase of 0.8 million people who are marijuana abusers or dependent on it thereby implying a significant public health problem. Several studies have been done to understand the determinants of marijuana use. A study by Tu, Rather, and Johnson (2008) examined gender differences with regard to marijuana use in a Canadian sample of adolescents. The study found that 47% of the sample had used marijuana. The characteristics of male heavy users were being in Grade 9 or higher, being Aboriginal, reporting poorer socio-economic status, never feeling like an outsider, frequently using alcohol and tobacco, and having lower satisfaction with family, friends, and school. The characteristics of female heavy users were being in higher grades, reporting poorer socio-economic status, having poorer mental health, having poorer academic performance, frequently using alcohol and tobacco, and having lower satisfaction with their school. An Australian study by Hayatbakhsh and colleagues (2008) examined early childhood factors for initiation of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana and found that disrupted families, drug-using parents, childhood problem behaviors, and poor parental monitoring and supervision in childhood were associated with early initiation. An American study by Brook, Saar, and Brook (2008) showed that exposure to violent television programs in late adolescence was related to marijuana use. A study done with Belgian teenagers found that Cannabis use was higher among general education students and truants (Kohn, Dramaix, Favresse, Kittel, & Piette, 2005). Another study by Kohn and colleagues (2004) found that age, amount of income in the family, strong peer group integration and tobacco use were associated with Cannabis experimentation; while age, gender, nationality, average family integration and other drugs use such as addiction to nicotine were related to the current consumption of marijuana. A study by Crano, Siegel, Alvaro, Lac, and Hemovich (2008) looked at the differences between resolute non users of marijuana, vulnerable non users and users. The three groups differed with regard to religiosity, delinquency (self and friends'), refusal strength, sensation seeking, parental monitoring and warmth, and adult supervision. In a study of maternal Cannabis use during early pregnancy it was found that the strongest determinant was Cannabis use by the biological father of the child followed by being single or having a partner without being married, childhood trauma and delinquency (El Marroun et al. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.511
Threshold uncertainty score0.160

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.317 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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