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: 8458476
• 负责人: Sheigla Brighid Murphy
• 金额: $ 43.34万
• 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 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8458476
• 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; Marijuana Smoking; 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 user; men; mental age; metropolitan; public health relevance; 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(申请人提供)：当婴儿潮一代还是青少年和年轻人时，大麻的使用在青年文化中得到了广泛的接受，但到了20世纪80年代末，大麻和其他所谓的“软”毒品的使用在社会上受到了贬低。今天，钟摆正在回摆，大麻的使用已经变得更加广泛地被容忍，以至于市级、县级和州级的法律已经在全国范围内颁布了将持有大麻合法化的法律。为了调查不断变化的政治和社会背景对健康和社会的影响，我们计划对大麻使用者进行深入的生活史访谈，将其分为两组，根据不同的社会角色和队列经历定义：60名婴儿潮早期(出生于1946-1957年间)和60名婴儿潮后期(1958-1964年间出生)，他们是经常吸食大麻的人。我们希望发现婴儿潮早期和晚期出生的人对自己和他人使用大麻的看法、他们的态度、他们的实际使用模式以及他们对大麻的健康和社会后果的看法之间的异同。这个拟议的为期36个月的定性项目的总体目标是对120名(60名女性和60名男性)主要大麻使用者进行深入访谈，以解决以下问题：婴儿潮早期和晚期的信念、行为、大麻使用对健康和社会的影响有什么不同和相似之处，他们如何改变大麻使用生涯？要被纳入样本，参与者必须自我确认为目前吸食大麻的人，出生于1946年至1964年之间，并且他们必须在六个月内至少使用大麻24次或至少每周一次。在他们的吸毒生涯中，他们从未接受过海洛因、粉末或强效可卡因、甲基苯丙胺、其他俱乐部药物、迷幻剂或处方药的治疗。我们将包括那些因吸食大麻而接受治疗的人。我们将排除在面试前一年自我报告酒精问题或治疗的潜在参与者。这些纳入和排除标准旨在将我们的研究重点放在老年主要大麻使用者身上，以具体检查他们的大麻使用情况，并发现他们独特的使用轨迹。了解老年大麻使用者的经历将有助于了解未来的使用模式，以及那些在成年后继续吸食大麻的年轻人的潜在健康和社会后果。深入了解老年大麻使用者、信仰和做法将使我们能够修改目前针对年轻人的现有预防和干预努力，将重点放在日益增长的老年人人口上。公共卫生倡议不仅需要适应文化层面(例如，资源和种族)，而且还需要适应年龄和老龄化。人们使用大麻的动机不同，随着时间的推移可能会有所不同，这就要求设计不同的干预策略。通过识别早期和晚期婴儿潮一代的社会和健康相关问题，我们不仅可以加强针对婴儿潮一代的公共卫生倡议，也可以加强针对年轻一代的公共卫生倡议，因为我们将展示大麻在自然的身心老化过程中所起的作用。