A Qualitative Study of Cannabis Edibles

大麻食用品的定性研究

• 批准号: 8963275
• 负责人: Sheigla Brighid Murphy
• 金额: $ 46.59万
• 依托单位: SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8963275
• 关键词: 18 year old; Abate; Accounting; Address; Adult; Adverse reactions; Affect; Area; Attitude; Belief; Cannabis; Communities; Crack Cocaine; Criminal Justice; Drug Prescriptions; Drug user; Early Diagnosis; Emergency department visit; Esthesia; Exclusion Criteria; Exogenous Factors; Hallucinations; Hallucinogens; Health; Heart; Heroin; Hour; Ingestion; Intervention; Interview; Intoxication; Learning; Length; Medical; Methamphetamine; Motivation; Outcome; Overdose; Palpitations; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Perception; Population; Powder dose form; Product Labeling; Public Health; Qualitative Research; Regulation; Research; Research Project Grants; Risk; Sampling; San Francisco; Seasons; Site; Smoking; Sorting - Cell Movement; Sweat; Sweating; Testing; Time; Woman; alcohol abuse therapy; behavioral health; club drug; design; dosage; dysphoria; expectation; experience; ideation; inclusion criteria; marijuana use; marijuana user; men; metropolitan; parent project; public health relevance; research study; social

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the course of conducting the parent project, "Times are Changing: A Qualitative Study of Older Marijuana Users (R01DA033814)," we learned that edible cannabis use has emerged as a mode of ingestion with its own set of challenges for users and their communities. As edible cannabis becomes more popular and available, it is important that we ascertain users' motivations for experimentation and continuation of edible use. Our preliminary findings indicate that many Baby Boomers sought out edible cannabis as a healthier alternative to smoking and discovered a qualitatively different intoxication experience. Users' accounts indicate that one of their main challenges was the potential for overdose. Overdose experiences range from very unpleasant sensations that abate over several hours to heart palpitations, excessive sweating, extreme dysphoria, paranoid ideation, hallucinations and trips to the ER. In fact, early detection and surveillance mechanisms indicate an increase in cannabis edible-related ER visits (SAMSHA, 2013). The overarching aim of this proposed 36-month qualitative project is to conduct in-depth interviews with 120 adult (60 women and 60 men) who use edible cannabis in order to address the question: What are the beliefs, practices, and health and social consequences of edible cannabis use? To be included in the sample, participants must self-identify as a current edible cannabis user, and they must have used edible cannabis a minimum of 5 times in a 12 month period. At no point will they have been in treatment for heroin, powder or crack cocaine, methamphetamine, other club drugs, psychedelics or prescription drugs. We will include those who have been in treatment for their cannabis use. We will exclude potential participants who self-report problems with or treatment for alcohol in the year prior to interview. These inclusion and exclusion criteria are designed to focus our study on primary cannabis users in order to examine their edible cannabis use specifically and to discover their use trajectories and their behavioral, health, and social outcomes. San Francisco is an ideal site for this qualitative study because it has a higher percentage of people who are regular drug users (13.0% vs. national average of 8.1%) than any other major metropolitan area in the US. As edible cannabis use becomes more socially acceptable, the potential for adverse reactions increases among both novice and seasoned users. As medical and recreational users begin to experiment with edible cannabis, problems with proper dosage, problems with the length of time to onset of intoxication and other negative health consequences may be exacerbated. New health-related complications specific to cannabis edible use may also emerge. This qualitative research project will provide much needed empirical information about edible cannabis users' unique experiences in order to design more appropriate and effective public health warnings and interventions targeted specifically to the growing population of edible cannabis users.

 描述（由适用提供）：在进行母公司项目的过程中，“时代正在改变：对年长的大麻使用者的定性研究（R01DA033814）”，我们了解到，食用大麻的使用已成为一种对用户及其社区的挑战的摄入方式。随着可食用的大麻变得越来越流行和可用，我们必须确定用户的实验动机和可食用使用的动机。我们的初步发现表明，许多婴儿潮一代都将食用大麻视为吸烟的更健康的替代品，并发现了质量不同的局部毒性体验。用户的帐户表明，他们的主要挑战之一是过量的潜力。过量的体验范围从减轻几个小时内的非常不愉快的感觉到心pal，过多的出汗，极端的烦躁不安，偏执的想法，幻觉和前往ER的旅行。实际上，早期的检测和监视机制表明大麻可食用的急诊室就诊有所增加（Samsha，2013年）。这个拟议的36个月定性项目的总体目的是对使用可食用大麻的120名成年人（60名女性和60名男性）进行深入的访谈，以解决以下问题：哪些信念，实践以及可食用大麻的健康和社会后果是什么？被包括在样本中，参与者必须自我识别为当前的可食用大麻用户，并且他们必须在12个月内使用可食用的大麻至少5次。他们绝不会接受海洛因，粉末或裂纹可卡因，甲基苯丙胺，其他俱乐部药物，迷幻药或处方药的治疗。我们将包括那些正在接受大麻使用的治疗的人。我们将排除在面试前一年中自我报告对酒精问题或治疗酒精治疗的潜在参与者。这些纳入和排除标准旨在将我们的研究集中在主要的大麻使用者上，以专门检查其可食用的大麻使用，并发现其使用轨迹及其行为，健康和社会成果。旧金山是这项定性研究的理想场所，因为它比美国其他任何主要大都市地区的常规吸毒者（13.0％比全国平均水平为8.1％）更高。随着食用大麻的使用变得越来越可以接受，喷嘴和经验丰富的用户的不良反应的可能性增加。随着医疗和娱乐用户开始尝试可食用的大麻，适当剂量的问题，随着发作时间长时间发作和其他负面健康后果的问题可能会加剧。特定于大麻可食用使用的新的与健康有关的并发症也可能出现。这个定性研究项目将提供有关可食用大麻用户独特体验的急需的经验信息，以设计更合适有效的公共卫生警告和专门针对不断增长的可食用大麻用户人群的干预措施。