Sarah Rodriguez
BBH143-Post #4
June 9, 2013
The article that I found that related most to the
topics that we discussed in class this week is titled, “Comparison of Substance Use Milestones in Cannabis-and Cocaine-Dependent
Patients”. This article is about a study that was conducted in order to
compare the progression of drug use milestones between cannabis and cocaine.
The study used 112 cocaine-dependent individuals and 130 cannabis-dependent
individuals as its sample size. The study looked closely at the individuals
from the year 2000 to the year 2007 and watched to see how the individuals
progressed from first time users to regular users over the period of time. The study predicted that cocaine-dependent
individuals would progress more quickly from first time use to regular user
compared to cannabis users. The result of the study found that
cocaine-dependent individuals who participated in the study were composed of
more African Americans than cannabis-dependent individuals. After collecting
all of the data the study also founded that their hypothesis was wrong in that
cocaine-dependent individuals would progress more quickly from first time use
to regular use. The data proved that cannabis-dependent individuals progressed
more quickly to regular use than that of the cocaine-dependent users. The data
also showed that cannabis is used more frequently than cocaine, which could be
a contributing factor as to why users progress quicker.
I chose
this article because I found it extremely interesting. Not only did it directly
relate to our class discussion but I was also interested because this article also
disproved the common though that cocaine progressed more quickly into regular
use than that of cannabis use.
http://www.tandfonline.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/doi/full/10.1080/10550887.2011.642753#.Ua-d2fWMIek
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