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ArticleAddictive behaviors2022

Getting high to cope with COVID-19: Modelling the associations between cannabis demand, coping motives, and cannabis use and problems.

L Vedelago, J D Wardell, T Kempe, H Patel, M Amlung, J MacKillop, M T Keough

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

L VedelagoDepartment of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: lvedelag@yorku.ca.
J D WardellDepartment of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
T KempeDepartment of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
H PatelDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
M AmlungDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States.
J MacKillopDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, McMaster University & St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Homewood Research Institute, Guelph, ON, Canada.
M T KeoughDepartment of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people may use substances like cannabis for enhancement or coping purposes. Behavioral economic demand for a substance is a key determinant of its use and misuse and can be measured via hypothetical purchase tasks. Previous research suggests that motivations to use a substance play a mediational role between elevated substance demand and problems, but comparable mechanistic research has yet to be done in the COVID-19 context and on the effects of cannabis demand on cannabis use patterns. Participants (n = 137) were recruited via the online crowdsourcing platform Prolific. Participants completed measures of cannabis use and problems, motivations for cannabis use, and the Marijuana Purchase Task. Two indices of demand, Persistence (i.e., sensitivity to increasing cost of cannabis) and Amplitude (i.e., consumption of cannabis at unrestricted cost), were related to increased cannabis problems via the use motive of coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. This model did not support the mediational role of enhancement motives. Those with increased cannabis demand who tend to use cannabis to cope are at increased risk of experiencing negative cannabis-related consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CannabisCOVID-19Adaptation, PsychologicalHumansMotivationPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Behavioral economicsCannabisDemandMotives

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PMID34469783
PMCPMC8555961

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