Marital History of Narcotics Addicts

O'Donnell, John A.; Besteman, Karst J.; Jones, Judith P.

doi:10.3109/10826086709074409

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“…In a study with nonhuman primates, the concentration of β-endorphin in cerebral spinal fluid increased significantly after grooming (Keverne et al, 1989). Thus in opioid-dependent populations, where social relationships are often disrupted (O'donnell et al, 1967), opioids may be used in a compensatory manner (Albertin and Íniguez, 2008). Here we report results consistent with this idea, showing that an exogenous mu-partial agonist dampens responses to simulated social rejection.…”

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Effects of buprenorphine on responses to social stimuli in healthy adults

Bershad

Seiden

Wit

2016

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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In addition to its classical role in mediating responses to pain, the opioid system is strongly implicated in the regulation of social behavior. In young laboratory animals, low doses of opioid analgesic drugs reduce responses to isolation distress and increase play behavior. However, little is known about how opioid drugs affect responses to social stimuli in humans. Here we examined the effects of buprenorphine, a mu-opioid partial agonist and kappa-antagonist, on three dimensions of social processing; i) responses to simulated social rejection, ii) attention to emotional facial expressions, and iii) emotional responses to images with and without social content. Healthy adults (N = 36) attended two sessions during which they received either placebo or 0.2mg sublingual buprenorphine in randomized order, under double-blind conditions. Ninety minutes after drug administration, they completed three behavioral tasks: i) a virtual ball-toss game in which they were first included and then excluded by the other players; ii) an attention task in which they were shown pairs of faces (one emotional and one neutral), while the direction of their gazes was recorded using electrooculography, and iii) a picture-viewing task, in which they rated standardized images with and without social content. During the ball-toss game, buprenorphine decreased perceived social rejection. During the attention task, the drug reduced initial attention to fearful facial expressions, without influencing attention to angry, happy, and sad faces. Finally, during the picture-viewing task, buprenorphine increased ratings of positivity of images with social content, without affecting ratings of nonsocial images. These results suggest that even at low doses, opioid analgesic drugs reduce responses to some types of negative social stimuli, while enhancing positive responses to social stimuli. This provides further support for the role of the opioid system in mediating responses to social rejection and social reward.

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Effects of buprenorphine on responses to social stimuli in healthy adults

Bershad

Seiden

Wit

2016

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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“…Women more often than men attribute the beginnings of their sustained heroin use to family problems, and attribute their later motivation to discontinue drug use to family factors (Rosenbaum 1979(Rosenbaum , 1981a. Narcotics use among women is begun at the initiation of a male drug-using partner far more often than the reverse (Zahn & Ball, 1974;O'Donnell et al, 1967;Rosenbaum, 1981a). Waldorf (1973) found that 54% of the females in his study of drug abusers had a last spouse or lover who was a heroin user, compared to 19% of the males.…”

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Expanding the family systems approach: Cultural, class, developmental and gender influences in drug abuse

Menicucci

Wermuth

1989

The American Journal of Family Therapy

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“…'Z'he female drug abuser is likely to select a drug-abusing or deviant mate, and these mates are likely to have played a significant role in her drug abuse (Zahn & Ball, 1974). O'Donnell, Besteman, and Jones (1967) stated that their data clearly indicated that transmission of narcotics use in marriage was from husband to wife rather than from wife to husband. Waldorf (1973) reported a similar pattern in his study: 54% of his female sample indicated that their last Marriage and Children.…”

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Women and Drugs: The Heroin Abuser and the Prescription Drug Abuser

Gutierres

Patton

Raymond³

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Psychology of Women Quarterly

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CONCLUSIONS Female drug abusers traditionally have posed treatment problems for therapists in the drug abuse field. Information dealing specifically with female drug abuse, however, is limited. Therapists, program planners, and policy‐makers alike express a desire to improve intervention techniques with women; but until some better understanding of female drug abuse is gained, recommendations must be tentative. The bulk of the data available has focused on descriptive studies and studies which attempt to show relationships between certain psychological or sociological components of the female drug abuser's life and her subsequent drug abuse. Although these types of data provide useful information on the phenomenon, the explanatory or predictive power of empirical research is lacking. The field is clearly in need of theoretical formulations and applications. For instance, can the female drug abuser's apathetic attitude toward treatment attempts be explained partially by an external locus of control (the perception that external forces seem to control her life, so that her own efforts will have very little to do with whether or not. she is able to abstain from drug use)? Successful intervention strategy depends on this kind of information.

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Marital History of Narcotics Addicts

Cited by 19 publications

References 2 publications

Effects of buprenorphine on responses to social stimuli in healthy adults

Effects of buprenorphine on responses to social stimuli in healthy adults

Expanding the family systems approach: Cultural, class, developmental and gender influences in drug abuse

Women and Drugs: The Heroin Abuser and the Prescription Drug Abuser

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