After decades of the American "war on drugs" and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce ...the prison population: addiction treatment.InAddicted to Rehab, Bard College sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system-two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. McKim's book shows how addiction rehab reflects the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive turn. As a result, addiction has become a racialized category that has reorganized the link between punishment and welfare provision. While reformers hope that treatment will offer an alternative to punishment and help women, McKim argues that the framework of addiction further stigmatizes criminalized women and undermines our capacity to challenge gendered subordination. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.
IntroductionInstagram, one of the most widely used social media by population was changed the way individuals communicate around the world. It can be used to increase individual self popularity or ...increase self-esteem.ObjectivesTo determine the relationship between the instagram addiction and self-esteem in a population of tunisian doctors.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted online using the Google Forms platform, with a sample of tunisian doctors in september and october 2022. We used :- Instagram Addiction Scale (IAS) : to assess Instagram addiction levels. A score above 37 indicates addiction to instagram.- Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale : to measure the level of self-esteem. Higher scores indicate higher levels of self-esteem.ResultsThe sample comprised 106 doctors.- IAS : The mean score was 31.18 (SD=11.64). Less than half (42.5%) presented an addiction to instagram and 36.8% were mildly addicted.- The mean self-esteem score was 29.70 (SD=3.57). Less than half (44%) had low to very low self-esteem.- The instagram addiction score was negatively correlated with the self-esteem score (r=-0.543 ; p=0.0001).It was found that these scores were significantly lower in the addicts (p=0.0001) indicating lower self-esteem. Among addicts, 80% had low to very low self-esteem. Among non addicts, 18% had low to very low self-esteem.ConclusionsIt was found that the higher the intensity of using instagram the lower the self esteem.Further research is expected to be carried out with a wider population to verify the present findings and to study other factors related to instagram addiction such as loneliness and life satisfaction.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared
Introduction
In the past few years, there has been a considerable amount of evidence that cannabis use can cause structural and functional brain abnormalities.Structural imaging studies of cannabis ...users have revealed reduced prefrontal cortex volumes and white matter damage that may be involved with impulsivity.
Objectives:
To Determine the level of dependence on cannabis among cannabis users consulting the detoxification center of Sfax, Tunisia To assess in addition the impact of cannabis on impulsivity and motor control.
Methods
This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study that was conducted over a period of 13 months between September 15, 2020 and October 1, 2021 among cannabis users consulting the detoxification center of Sfax, Tunisia.A short form of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (the BIS-15) and a Cannabis Abuse Screening Test (CAST) were used to assess impulsivity and to determine cannabis abuse.
Results:
Thirty Eight cannabis users agreed to participate in this study. The distribution of CAST scores showed that 36 users (94.7%) had problematic cannabis use at the time of the study. The mean BIS 15 score was 38.2. In our sample, The level of impulsivity was highest in people with a high level of cannabis dependence. A higher level of impulsivity was found in younger subjects. However, a greater level of impulsivity was found in subjects with a lower socio-economic level. Concerning employment status, unemployment was significantly correlated with a higher level of impulsivity.
Conclusions
Impulsivity is often associated with a variety of problematic behaviors such as aggressive behavior, smoking, drug abuse, pathological gambling or compulsive buying.
A higher frequency of cannabis use and earlier age of onset use have been shown to be associated with the highest rates of impulsivity.
Therefore, cannabis addiction represents a real public health problem, both because of the serious complications and heavy repercussions that it causes.
Disclosure of Interest
None Declared
Treatment of Refractory Opioid Use Disorder Kimmel Simeon; Bach Paxton; Walley, Alexander Y
Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM,
06/2021, Letnik:
36, Številka:
6
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