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Environmental Cues Can Indirectly Acquire Cocaine-Eliciting Changes in Heart Rate: A Pilot Study of Derived Relational Responding, the Transfer of Function among Cocaine Users
Identifying the processes by which environmental stimuli can come to influence drug use is important for developing more efficacious interventions....
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Cocaine, Genes, and Violent Behaviors
This chapter encompasses the relationship between violence, cocaine use, and the genetics behind both. Can our genome play a role in this problematic...
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Cocaine, Genes, and Violent Behaviors
This chapter encompasses the relationship between violence, cocaine use, and the genetics behind both. Can our genome play a role in this problematic...
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Discriminative functional connectivity signature of cocaine use disorder links to rTMS treatment response
Cocaine use disorder (CUD) is prevalent, and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) shows promise in reducing cravings. However, the...
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Validation of Brief Condom Use Attitudes Scales for Spanish-Speaking People Who Use Crack Cocaine in El Salvador
People who use crack cocaine (PWUCC) are a population severely impacted by a concentrated epidemic of HIV. Behavioral interventions to prevent and...
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Neural sensitivity to risk in adults with co-occurring HIV infection and cocaine use disorder
Persons with co-occurring HIV infection and cocaine use disorder tend to engage in riskier decision-making. However, the neural correlates of...
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The Interactions Between Vulnerabilities for HIV and Syphilis among Cisgender and Transgender People Who Use Drugs
In Brazil, transgender people are most affected by HIV, and crack cocaine addiction may contribute to social vulnerability and exposure to sexual and...
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Dopaminergic modulation of sensitivity to immediate and delayed punishment during decision-making
Effective decision-making involves careful consideration of all rewarding and aversive outcomes. Importantly, negative outcomes often occur later in...
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The Hotel Room Purchase Task: Effects of Gender and Partner Desirability on Demand for Hypothetical Sex in Individuals with Disordered Cocaine Use and Controls
Hypothetical purchase tasks allow for rapid assessment of behavioral economic demand for numerous commodities and are useful in evaluating reinforcer...
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Measuring Sexual Risk-Taking: A Systematic Review of the Sexual Delay Discounting Task
The Sexual Delay Discounting Task (SDDT; Johnson & Bruner,
2012 ) is a behavioral economic task that assesses sexual risk-taking by measuring...
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Substance Use
This chapter starts out with a theoretical discussion of the meaning of “drug”. As it turns out, three different kinds of psychoactive drugs can be...
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Addiction
Drug abuse or substance abuse disorder is a widespread problem, and is considered both a brain disorder and a form of mental illness. Many types of...
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The Association Between Homophily on Illicit Drug Use and PrEP Conversations Among Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men Friends: A Dyadic Network and Spatially Explicit Study
Despite the wide availability of PrEP, Latino men who have sex with men (LMSM) continue to experience access barriers. Novel HIV prevention research...
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Determinants of Intention to Use HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis and Condom Use Among a Sample of Cisgender Female Sex Workers Working Mostly Outdoors in Madrid, Spain
There is scant knowledge regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among female sex workers (FSWs) in Europe. Spain recognized FSWs as a...
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Family Risk Exposure Profiles During Early Childhood: Developmental Processes and Adolescent Well-Being
Although prior work indicates that exposure to multiple family risk factors negatively impacts adjustment in childhood and adolescence, few studies...
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Prevalence of Intoxicating Substance Use Before or During Sex Among Young Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Drug use before or during sex is a high-risk sexual behavior associated with adverse health risks and outcomes, such as increasing the likelihood of...
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Contingency management is effective in promoting abstinence and retention in treatment among crack cocaine users with a previous history of poor treatment response: a crossover trial
BackgroundCrack use has become a severe health problem in Brazil. Contingency management has shown robust evidence of efficacy in the treatment of...
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Drugs and Consciousness
Drugs have a significant impact on consciousness through various pathways and various mechanisms. Every day, new drugs are involved in clinical...
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Disulfiram in the Management of Cocaine Dependence and Other Psychiatric Disorders
This chapter provides an in-depth discussion on the rationale and efficacy of the use of disulfiram in cocaine dependence and pathological gambling....
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Assessment and Intervention in Social and Coping Skills for Alcohol and Drug Users
Substance use disorder can be explained by the interaction between a diversity of biological, psychological, and social variables. In the relapse...
