Positive Childhood Experiences are Associated With Alcohol Use in Adolescent and Emerging Adult Females by Adverse Childhood Experiences Dimension.

Purpose: Experiencing multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is associated with alcohol use in female adolescents and emerging adults. Protective and compensatory experiences (PACEs) have been theorized to off-set the health and behavioral consequences from the accumulation of ACEs throughout childhood. This study examines the association between protective experiences and subsequent alcohol and binge alcohol use frequency over one month among female adolescent and emerging adults reporting high and low levels of two ACE dimensions (household dysfunction and emotional abuse/neglect).

"It frees your body from that pain thought": A mixed-methods exploration of patterns, contexts, and experiences of cannabis use for pain in rural communities.

U.S. adults increasingly report using cannabis to manage chronic pain and rural areas have inadequate comprehensive pain management.

Language considerations for children of parents with substance use disorders.

Parents with substance use disorders are highly stigmatized by multiple systems (e.g., healthcare, education, legal, social).

Changes in basic psychological needs, passion, and well-being of first-semester graduate students.

Objective: Examine changes in graduate student health and well-being in the first semester.

Participants: Full-time, first-semester graduate students (N = 74) from a midsized midwestern university.

Method: Graduate students were surveyed prior to starting their master's program and 10 weeks later.

Stigma: how it affects the substance use disorder patient.

The stigma surrounding individuals who have substance use disorders is a pervasive phenomenon that has had detrimental effects on treatment outcomes, health care providers, treatments, research, policies, and society as a whole (Kelly JF, Dow SJ, Westerhoff C , J Drug Issues_40:805-818, Kelly JF, Westerhoff, Int J Drug Policy_21:202-207, 2010). Stigma can be cultivated by various sources, but this article specifically focuses on the impact words have. Individuals influence each other through dynamic language processes.