Drug-Abusers Cannot Easily Identify Negative Emotions

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by Tanya Thomas on February 07, 2011 at 12:11 PM

Scientists at the University of Granada have found that drug-abusers have difficulty in identifying negative emotions by their facial expression: wrath, disgust, fear and sadness.

Further, regular abuse of alcohol, cannabis and cocaine usually affects abusers' fluency and decision-making. Consuming cannabis and cocaine negatively affects work memory and reasoning. Similarly, cocaine abuse is associated to alterations in inhibition.

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by Tanya Thomas on February 07, 2011 at 12:11 PM

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http://www.medindia.net/news/Drug-Abusers-Cannot-Easily-Identify-Negative-Emotions-80505-1.htm

Scientists at the University of Granada have found that drug-abusers have difficulty in identifying negative emotions by their facial expression: wrath, disgust, fear and sadness.

Further, regular abuse of alcohol, cannabis and cocaine usually affects abusers' fluency and decision-making. Consuming cannabis and cocaine negatively affects work memory and reasoning. Similarly, cocaine abuse is associated to alterations in inhibition.


For the purpose of this study, researchers carried out a neuropsychological evaluation out of a total of 123 polysubstance abusers and 67 no-drug users with similar social and demographical variables (age and schooling).

The target population were individuals who consumed drugs as cocaine, cannabis, heroin, alcohol, MDMA and methamphetamine, and who were enrolled in two rehabilitation projects Proyecto Hombre and Cortijo Buenos Aires in the province of Granada.

The main author of this research was Maria Jose Fernandez Serrano -supervised by professors Miguel Perez García and Antonio Javier Verdejo García- of the Department of Personality and Psychological Treatment and Evaluation, University of Granada.

The study revealed that 70 percent of drug abusers presented some type of neuropsychological deterioration, regardless the type of substance consumed. Deterioration was registered in major degree in the working memory, and in fluency, flexibility, planning, multitask ability and interference.

Fernandez Serrano thinks that the results obtained "should be employed to develop political and social policies aimed at promoting adequate rehab programs adapted to the neuropsychological profile of drug-abusers".

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Can you really say drug users and non users are socially similar though? I mean the fact drug users take drugs shows a low level of reasoning. Harming you're body for a fun few hours? In some cases even risking death? Clearly the social demographic is different if some think it's worth it and others don't.
 
all this shows is that sociopathic tendencies and drug use are co-morbid in this small group of 123 drug users (how reliable will generalisations from a sample size that small be?)

people who end up in rehab are not typical drug users, but more the group that fail to control their drug use or, get caught all the time and sent to rehab. basically people with an impaired executive function in the first place.

anyone who goes to rehab for cannabis or mdma sounds like someone who has been sent there by the law, cos those two drugs are easy to not use.

i smell prohibition propaganda (drug users are stpud, blah blah blah, cos clever people wouldn't do drugs, ra ra ra, circular arguement)
 
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Lucky Number 9 said:
Can you really say drug users and non users are socially similar though? I mean the fact drug users take drugs shows a low level of reasoning. Harming you're body for a fun few hours? In some cases even risking death? Clearly the social demographic is different if some think it's worth it and others don't.
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While this is sometimes true.. i also believe that the sense of reasoning will differ because drug users will "think outside the box".. make their own deicisions and not blindly follow the law like a sheep.. which imo.. show a higher level of reasoning. Not all drug use harms your body.. and not all drug users risk death atall. I'm also willing to bet that smokers weren't considered to be drug users.. which completely flaws your logic.
 
rickolasnice said:
While this is sometimes true.. i also believe that the sense of reasoning will differ because drug users will "think outside the box".. make their own deicisions and not blindly follow the law like a sheep.. which imo.. show a higher level of reasoning. Not all drug use harms your body.. and not all drug users risk death atall. I'm also willing to bet that smokers weren't considered to be drug users.. which completely flaws your logic.
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this is true, how dug users think outside the box. Seriousness about life and the world in general will have [robobly detereorated, and from that spawns a personality very very similar to sociopathy, I have especially noticed this in myself, whether it was polysubtance abuse, or just how i was born, but I find myself very carefree, emotionally cold, unsympathetic/empathetic to anyone (as in It wouldn't really bother me much is someone close died, if at all), and I feel like no matter how all the friends I have, nobody knows the TRUE me, behind the "boynextdoor" mask
 
Lucky Number 9 said:
Can you really say drug users and non users are socially similar though? I mean the fact drug users take drugs shows a low level of reasoning. Harming you're body for a fun few hours? In some cases even risking death? Clearly the social demographic is different if some think it's worth it and others don't.
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...lol8)

the fact that this post is on bluelight...ugh.
 
^well in some cases he's right. If your bumping mephedrone all night long you are seriously harming yourself for a number of hours as well as possibly maybe risking death.

But marijuana is a whole nother ballgame of course.


Consuming cannabis and cocaine negatively affects work memory and reasoning
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^yeah sure just go ahead and clump those two together on the statistics. no need to have an independent variable...
 
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