A pilot study to explore the effects of substances on cognition, mood, performance, and experience of daily activities

Kiepek, Niki; Beagan, Brenda L.; Harris, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.peh.2018.02.003

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“…Our research suggests there is relatively high prevalence of use of licit, illicit, and prescribed substances that could have the potential to affect performance at work. However, in our research, there are few actual reports of substances having ever negatively impacted work performance as an immediate effect (Kiepek et al , 2018). The relationship between substance use and competent performance of professional roles remains an open question.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…It would take a minimum of 8 min, plus an estimated additional 2 min per substance. The types of effects documents have been reported elsewhere (Kiepek et al , 2018), and were categorised as feeling (25 emotion-related changes), bodily changes (12 physiological-related changes), thinking (10 cognition-related changes) and doing/performance (21 changes related to engagement, performance or experience of activities). Relationships between substance use and mental health as indicated by the GAD-7 and the PHQ-9 are also reported elsewhere (submitted manuscript).…”

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Substance use by social workers and implications for professional regulation

Kiepek

Harris

Beagan

et al. 2019

Drugs and Alcohol Today

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the prevalence and patterns of substance use among Canadian social workers. With legalisation of can professional regulatory bodies are pressed to consider implications of substance use for their members. Design/methodology/approach An online survey collected data about demographics and substance use prevalence and patterns. Statistical analysis involved pairwise comparisons, binary logistic regression models and logistic regression models to explore correlations between substance use and demographic and work-related variables. Findings Among the respondents (n=489), findings indicate that past-year use of cannabis (24.1 per cent), cocaine (4.5 per cent), ecstasy (1.4 per cent), amphetamines (4.3 per cent), hallucinogens (2.4 per cent), opioid pain relievers (21.0 per cent) and alcohol (83.1 per cent) are higher than the general Canadian population. Years of work experience and working night shift were significant predictors of total number of substances used in the past year. Use of a substance by a person when they were a student was highly correlated with use when they were a professional. Research limitations/implications Prevalence of substance use among social workers was found to be higher than the Canadian population; potential due to the anonymous nature of data collection. Originality/value This study has implications for social conceptualisations of professionalism and for decisions regarding professional regulation. Previous literature about substance use by professionals has focussed predominantly on implications for increased surveillance, monitoring, and disciplinary action. We contend that since substance use among professionals tends to be concealed, there may be exacerbated social misconceptions about degree of risk and when it is appropriate to intervene.

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Substance use by social workers and implications for professional regulation

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Harris

Beagan

et al. 2019

Drugs and Alcohol Today

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“…This is not to say that the health providers were unaware of potentially non-problematic or beneficial use or students were unaware of potential experiences of problematic use. One might assume that if health providers were talking about their own use of substances, the framing may include descriptions of rational choices and control (Kiepek & Beagan, 2018; Kiepek et al, 2018) and students frame stories of others to include the potential for substance use disorders. To elicit these nuanced understandings, probing questions may be refined to more explicitly elicit stories of self and stories of others.…”

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Socially Situated Experiences of Substance Use: A Photo Elicitation Pilot Study

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Ausman,

Murphy

et al. 2023

SAGE Open

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Our study was designed to pilot a photo elicitation methodology and undertake preliminary examination of substance use from the perspectives of two potentially disparate groups. Photo elicitation methodology involved participant generated photos and elicitation interviews to purposefully explore (i) how people who use substances depict and discuss their own substance use, and (ii) how professionals who prescribe/dispense pharmaceuticals depict and portray how substances impact the lives’ of patients/clients. Individuals who use substances told “stories of self.” Health providers blended “stories of others” and “stories of social worlds” that indirectly revealed “stories of self.” All participants confronted dominant social perspectives, offering alternative interpretations and challenging such opinions as incomplete or erroneous. The social nature of substances held contrasting perspectives, with health professionals seeing incentives of “fitting in” with “peers using” and a “coping strategy” to reduce social anxiety. Participants who use substances told stories of positive social connections through shared experiences of substance use and increased effects of sociability. Findings may contribute to nuanced understandings to destigmatise and mitigate Othering.

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“…Psychoactive substances have diverse effects and taking a second substance can amplify or build on the effect of the first, or it may diminish or counteract it, or the combination of the two substances may be experienced as a different effect. In everyday life, many people routinely alternate mundane stimulants like coffee, tea or tobacco and depressants like alcohol to change their mood and degree of alertness, often without conscious thought about doing so (Kiepek, Beagan & Harris, 2018).…”

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Hepatic Cannabinoid Signaling in the Regulation of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease

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Debenham

Squeglia

2021

ARCR

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A pilot study to explore the effects of substances on cognition, mood, performance, and experience of daily activities

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Substance use by social workers and implications for professional regulation

Substance use by social workers and implications for professional regulation

Socially Situated Experiences of Substance Use: A Photo Elicitation Pilot Study

Hepatic Cannabinoid Signaling in the Regulation of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease

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