Correlates of Unmet Need for Modern Contraception Among Reproductive-Aged Women Involved in New York City Criminal Legal Systems.

Introduction: The population of women involved in criminal legal systems (WICL), a majority of whom are reproductive-aged, has risen steadily in the United States. They contend with numerous barriers to sexual and reproductive health services resulting in high rates of unmet need for contraception and unintended pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: This study included 132 non-pregnancy seeking reproductive-aged WICL enrolled in the baseline assessment of the HIV prevention intervention, "Women on the Road to Health" (WORTH).

Women with substance use disorders are highly impacted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade: Advocacy steps are urgently needed.

The Supreme Court's ruling to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade verdict represents a major setback for women's reproductive freedoms in the United States. This ruling revokes constitutional protection for abortion rights and returns the decision to the states.

Availability of informal social support and the impact on health services utilization among women in community corrections who engage in substance use and risky sexual behavior: New York City, 2009-2012.

Background: Women under community supervision in the U.S. experience high rates of substance use and HIV/STDs and face multiple barriers to healthcare services.

Associations between Cannabis Use and Sexual Risk Behavior among Women under Community Supervision: A Brief Report.

Objectives: Cannabis use and sexual risk behavior have been found to co-occur, but more research on these associations is needed among criminal justice-involved women (i.e., courts, jails, or prisons).

Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Understand the Impact of COVID-19 on People Who Use Drugs During Lockdown and Social Distancing.

Objectives: This paper uses a social media platform, Reddit, to identify real-time experiences of people who use drugs during the COVID-19 lock-down.

Methods: Reddit is a popular and growing social media platform, providing a large, publicly available dataset necessary for high performance of machine learning and topic modeling techniques. We used opioid-related "subreddits," communities where Reddit users engage in conversations about drug use, to examine COVID-19-related content of posts and comments from March to May 2020.

Cannabis and Vulvodynia Symptoms: A Preliminary Report.

Medical marijuana has a long history of use as an analgesic for chronic pain disorders, including dyspareunia (pain during intercourse), a hallmark of the rare chronic pain disorder vulvodynia. Many women's health topics remain under investigated. Few studies address cannabis's potential to treat vulvodynia symptoms despite their dramatic impact on quality of life.

Child Sexual Abuse and Compulsive Sexual Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review.

Purpose Of Review: Information on potential risk factors and clinical correlates of compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) may help inform more effective prevention and treatment measures. Sexual victimization, specifically, child sexual abuse (CSA), has been associated with CSB.

Recent Findings: This systematic review describes 21 studies on the relationship between CSA and CSB.

Gender-based differential item functioning in the Cannabis-Associated Problems Questionnaire: A replication and extension.

Background: Gender bias in measures of cannabis problems may differentially affect how men and women endorse items. This gender invariance might mask, exaggerate, or otherwise obscure true distinctions in experiences of cannabis consequences.

Methods: The Cannabis-Associated Problems Questionnaire (CAPQ), a measure of interpersonal deficits, occupational impairment, psychological issues, and physical side effects related to cannabis use, contained items with gender-based differential item functioning (DIF) in previous work-a finding we aim to replicate and extend (Lavender, Looby, & Earleywine, 2008).

Gender-Related Differences in Associations Between Sexual Abuse and Hypersexuality.

Background: Individuals with histories of sexual abuse may be more likely to experience sexual-related problems including hypersexuality, but gender-related differences remain unclear.

Aim: This online study examined sexual abuse history and hypersexuality by gender among 16,823 Hungarian adults, adjusting for age, sexual orientation, relationship status, education, employment status, and residence.

Methods: An online questionnaire on one of the largest Hungarian news portals advertised this study examining sexual activities in January 2017.

Effects of Messaging and Psychological Reactance on Marijuana Craving.

: Psychological Reactance Theory asserts that people experience reactance (a motivational state characterized by negative affect and cognition) when they perceive threats to their autonomy. Reactance may lead to "boomerang effects" by which individuals engage in the opposed behavior. : This experiment sought to determine whether a message encouraging marijuana (MJ) abstinence evoked greater reactance than a harm-reduction message and whether the message and reactance influenced individuals' attitudes, MJ craving, and intent to comply with the message request.

Aversiveness and Meaningfulness of Uncomfortable Experiences with Edible Cannabis.

Cannabis remains the most frequently used illicit drug in the United States. As its legal status has changed, more people have turned to oral administration ("edibles"). 172 individuals who reported an uncomfortable experience with edible cannabis completed an online survey.

Marijuana Use, Marijuana Expectancies, and Hypersexuality among College Students.

Research supports links between marijuana effect expectancies and risky sexual behaviors among marijuana users, but associations between marijuana expectancies and hypersexuality have yet to be investigated. The current study examined links between marijuana lifetime use and hypersexuality among university students. A hierarchical regression adjusting for gender and alcohol use was used to determine the degree to which marijuana use and expectancies accounted for variance in hypersexuality.