ArticleContemporary drug problems2015
PTSD and Cannabis-Related Coping Among Recent Veterans in New York City.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Use of Medicinal Cannabis and Synthetic Cannabinoids in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Pooled it
- Impact of self-reported cannabis use on veterans' intensive PTSD treatment outcomes.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2026Article
- Violence Exposure Relates Differently to Blood Pressure and Emotional Health as a Function of Cannabis Use Among Street-Identified Black Americans.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- A remote measurement study of PTSD and cannabis use among veterans: Recruitment, retention, and data availability.PloS one · 2025Article
- Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A State-of-the-art Review.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- Prevention, Practice, and Policy: Older US Veterans' Perspectives on Cannabis Use.Drugs & aging · 2023Article
- Endocannabinoid System as Therapeutic Target of PTSD: A Systematic Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Psychological factors associated with substance use initiation during the COVID-19 pandemic.Psychiatry research · 2020Article
- Competing Constructivisms: The Negotiation of PTSD and Related Stigma Among Post-9/11 Veterans in New York City.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2018Article
- Association Between Trust and Mental, Social, and Physical Health Outcomes in Veterans and Active Duty Service Members With Combat-Related PTSD Symptomatology.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Use of Protective Behavioral Strategies among Young Adult Veteran Marijuana Users.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2018Article
- Impact of Cannabis Use on Treatment Outcomes among Adults Receiving Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for PTSD and Substance Use Disorders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2017Article
- Treatment outcomes for veterans with PTSD and substance use: Impact of specific substances and achievement of abstinence.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Cannabis Use Disorder and Post-Deployment Suicide Attempts in Iraq/Afghanistan-Era Veterans.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchArticle
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Abstract
This article presents interview and focus group data from veterans of recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan about their use of cannabis as a coping tool for dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder. Veterans' comparisons of cannabis, alcohol, and psychopharmaceuticals tended to highlight advantages to cannabis use as more effective and less complicated by side effects. Some participants suggested that cannabis can be part of an approach-based coping strategy that aids with introspection and direct confrontation of the sources of personal trauma. Others, however, held that cannabis use was part of a less productive, avoidant coping strategy. Some self-reports suggested the need for more nuanced theorizations of coping behaviors, as they indicated motivations for use that were grounded in symptom alleviation rather than any direct confrontation with (or avoidance of) sources of trauma.
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