The Times are Changing: A Qualitative Study of Older and Younger Marijuana Users

时代在变化：对老年和年轻大麻使用者的定性研究

• 批准号: 8786532
• 负责人: Sheigla Brighid Murphy
• 金额: $ 53.8万
• 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 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8786532
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Adult; Affect; Age; Aging; Aging-Related Process; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Area; Attention; Attitude; Back; Belief; Country; County; Crack Cocaine; Criminal Justice; Dimensions; Drug Prescriptions; Drug usage; Drug user; Elderly; Equilibrium; Ethnic Origin; Exclusion Criteria; Exogenous Factors; Future; Generations; Hallucinogens; Happiness; Health; Healthcare; Heart Rate; Heroin; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Judgment; Laws; Light; Marijuana; Memory; Methamphetamine; Motivation; Myocardial Infarction; Older Population; Outcome; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Perception; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Play; Population; Powder dose form; Preventive Intervention; Public Health; Qualitative Research; Race; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Role; Sampling; San Francisco; Short-Term Memory; Site; Social Environment; Sorting - Cell Movement; Teenagers; Testing; Time; Woman; Youth; alcohol abuse therapy; behavioral health; career; club drug; cognitive function; cohort; design; drug testing; expectation; experience; inclusion criteria; life history; marijuana decriminalization; marijuana use; marijuana user; men; mental age; metropolitan; respiratory; social; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): When Baby Boomers were teenagers and young adults, marijuana use was broadly accepted among youth cultures, but by the late 1980s marijuana and other so-called "soft" drug use was socially disparaged. Today the pendulum is swinging back and marijuana use has become much more widely tolerated to the point where municipal, county, and state laws decriminalizing marijuana possession have been enacted across the country. In order to investigate the health and social consequences of changing political and social contexts, we plan to conduct in-depth life history interviews with marijuana users divided into two cohorts defined by varying social roles and cohort experiences : 60 early Baby Boomers (born between 1946-1957) and 60 late Boomers (1958- 1964) who are regular users. We hope to discover the differences and similarities between how early and late Baby Boomers perceive their own and others' marijuana use, their attitudes, their actual use patterns, and their perceptions of its health and social consequences. The overarching aim of this proposed 36-month qualitative project is to conduct in-depth interviews with 120 (60 women and 60 men) primary marijuana users in order to address the question: What are the differences and similarities between early and late Baby Boomers' beliefs, practices, and health and social consequences of marijuana use and how do they change over marijuana use careers? To be included in the sample, participants must self-identify as current marijuana users, be born between 1946 and 1964 and they must have used marijuana a minimum of 24 times in a six-month period or at least once a week. At no point in their drug using careers 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 marijuana 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 older primary marijuana users to examine their marijuana use specifically and to discover their unique use trajectories. Understanding the experiences of older marijuana users will shed light on future use patterns and potential health and social consequences for those young adults who continue to use marijuana into older adulthood. In depth understanding of older marijuana users, beliefs and practices will allow us to modify existing prevention and intervention efforts currently targeting younger populations to focus on the growing population of older adults. Public health initiatives need to be tailored not just to cultural dimensions (e.g. rce and ethnicity) but also to age and aging. People have different motives for marijuana use, which can vary over time, and this requires different approaches to designing intervention strategies. By identifying the social and health related issues of early and late Boomers we can strengthen the public health initiatives not only for Baby Boomers but for younger generations, because we will demonstrate the role marijuana plays during the natural physical and mental aging process.

描述（由申请人提供）：当婴儿潮一代是青少年和年轻人时，大麻在青年文化中被广泛接受，但是到1980年代后期，大麻和其他所谓的“软”毒品使用被社会贬低。如今，摆动正在倒退，大麻使用变得更加广泛，以至于在全国范围内颁布了市政，县和州法律将大麻财产归为合法的地步。为了调查不断变化的政治和社会环境的健康和社会后果，我们计划与大麻使用者进行深入的人生历史访谈，分为两种同类，这些群体由不同的社会角色和队列经验来定义：60名早期婴儿潮一代（1946-1957年生于1946-1957之间）和60个晚期潮一代（1958- 1964年）（1958- 1964年）是常规使用者。我们希望发现早期和晚期婴儿潮一代如何看待自己和他人的大麻使用，他们的态度，实际使用模式以及对健康和社会后果的看法之间的差异和相似之处。这个提议的36个月定性项目的总体目的是对120名（60名女性和60名男性）初级大麻使用者进行深入的访谈，以便解决以下问题：早期和晚期婴儿潮一代的信仰，实践，实践，健康和社会后果与大麻的使用以及他们如何改变大麻疗法的差异和社会后果？要包含在样本中，参与者必须自我识别为当前的大麻使用者，出生于1946年至1964年之间，他们必须在六个月或每周至少使用一次至少一次使用大麻24次。他们的毒品在使用职业的任何时候都不会接受海洛因，粉末或可卡因，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。这些包容性和排除标准旨在将我们的研究集中在较老的主要大麻使用者上，以专门检查其大麻使用，并发现其独特的使用轨迹。了解年长的大麻使用者的经历将阐明未来的使用模式以及潜在的健康和社会后果，并为那些继续将大麻用于较老的成年人的年轻人带来。深入了解年长的大麻使用者，信念和实践将使我们能够修改目前针对年轻人口的现有预防和干预工作，以专注于不断增长的老年人人口。公共卫生倡议不仅需要针对文化维度（例如RCE和种族）量身定制，而且还需要针对年龄和衰老。人们有不同的大麻使用动机，随着时间的流逝可能会有所不同，这需要设计干预策略的不同方法。通过确定早期和晚期婴儿潮一代与社会和健康相关的问题，我们可以加强公共卫生计划，不仅对婴儿潮一代，而且对年轻一代，因为我们将展示大麻在自然的身体和心理衰老过程中所发挥的作用。