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A placebo-controlled investigation of the analgesic effects, abuse liability, safety and tolerability of a range of oral cannabidiol doses in healthy humans

Caroline A Arout, Margaret Haney, Evan S Herrmann, Gillinder Bedi, Ziva D Cooper

Journal article  |  2021  |  BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

AIMS: Preclinical studies demonstrate that cannabidiol (CBD) elicits an antinociceptive response in animal models of neuropathic p..

Tobacco smoking in young people seeking treatment for mental ill-health: what are their attitudes, knowledge and behaviours towards quitting?

E Brown, B O'Donoghue, SL White, A Chanen, G Bedi, S Adams, C Schely, TU Do, A Sterjovska, K Moeller-Saxone, F Kay-Lambkin, M Simmons, E Cementon, E Killackey

Journal article  |  2021  |  IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

INTRODUCTION: Tobacco smoking is a leading cause of preventable death and disease worldwide. Adults with mental ill-health smoke t..

Responses to social evaluative stress in regular cannabis smokers

Richard J Xia, Thomas Chao, Divya Patel, Gillinder Bedi

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

BACKGROUND: Aspects of the canonical stress response differ in stimulant, opioid, and alcohol users relative to controls, and dysr..

Individual differences in distress, impulsivity, and coping motives for use as predictors of problematic ecstasy use

Sally Meikle, Olivia Carter, Gillinder Bedi

Journal article  |  2020  |  ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

BACKGROUND: Ecstasy users who report problematic use of ecstasy experience adverse social, psychological, and health-related conse..

Detection of acute 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) effects across protocols using automated natural language processing

Carla Agurto, Guillermo A Cecchi, Raquel Norel, Rachel Ostrand, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Matthew J Baggott, Margaret C Wardle, Harriet de Wit, Gillinder Bedi

Journal article  |  2020  |  NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The detection of changes in mental states such as those caused by psychoactive drugs relies on clinical assessments that are inher..

Rates and Predictors of Relapse in First-Episode Psychosis: An Australian Cohort Study

Ellie Brown, Gillinder Bedi, Pat McGorry, Brian O’Donoghue

Journal article  |  2020  |  Schizophrenia Bulletin Open

Abstract Background Clinical and functional recovery is usually achieved after..

Social motivational processing and interpersonal function in aging cocaine smokers

Gillinder Bedi, Xuejun Hao, Nicholas T Van Dam, Ziva D Cooper, Eric Rubin, Nehal P Vadhan, Leslie Marino, Margaret Haney

Journal article  |  2019  |  ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Illicit drug use among aging cohorts is increasing, yet little is known about functional impairments in older drug users. Given th..

Guanfacine decreases symptoms of cannabis withdrawal in daily cannabis smokers

Margaret Haney, Ziva D Cooper, Gillinder Bedi, Evan Herrmann, Sandra D Comer, Stephanie Collins Reed, Richard W Foltin, Frances R Levin

Journal article  |  2019  |  ADDICTION BIOLOGY

The α2a-adrenergic agonist, lofexidine, reduced cannabis withdrawal-related sleep disruption in the laboratory, but side effects (..

Varenicline and nabilone in tobacco and cannabis co-users: effects on tobacco abstinence, withdrawal and a laboratory model of cannabis relapse

Evan S Herrmann, Ziva D Cooper, Gillinder Bedi, Divya Ramesh, Stephanie Collins Reed, Sandra D Comer, Richard W Foltin, Margaret Haney

Journal article  |  2019  |  ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Tobacco and cannabis co-users (T+CUs) have poor cannabis cessation outcomes, but the mechanisms underlying this are not well under..

Cognitive function in aging cocaine smokers

Thomas Chao, Margaret Haney, Ziva D Cooper, Nehal P Vadhan, Nicholas T Van Dam, Jared Van Snellenberg, Gillinder Bedi

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the functional status of older drug users, who may pose challenges to public health systems in c..