Sharon R Sznitman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85829 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sharon R Sznitman |
| NOMBRES | Sharon R |
| APELLIDO | Sznitman |
| FIRMA | SZNITMAN S R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9398-0727 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Devil is in the Details
This study investigates how risk behavior detail (RBD) in health messages affects intentions to drive under the influence of cannabis (DUIC). Based on research on cue reactivity and observational learning, we test whether messages with detailed information about risky behaviors related to DUIC may inadvertently teach high-risk audiences these behaviors, thereby increasing their likelihood of engaging in DUIC. An online experiment surveyed 686 adu…
Positive autobiographical memories in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms
Further studies should investigate whether targeting improved access to positive AMs and improved abilities to construct coherent narratives of those events could mechanistically reduce PTSD symptoms among participants receiving PPMT. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Haven't I waited long enough? The role of wait times and subjective impairment in cannabis-related driving behavior
Negotiating the divide
The study reveals that stakeholders engage in boundary work as a strategic tool to navigate the complexity of maintaining boundaries between medical and non-medical cannabis systems. Relying on scientific discourse to legitimize medical cannabis while keeping non-medical cannabis in the social/political sphere may create artificial distinctions that do not reflect the complex reality of cannabis use. Policymakers aiming to reduce blurred boundari…
Cannabis trading on Telegram channels
Various forms of cannabis normalization processes are visible in Telegram-facilitated cannabis trade. This may have public health implications as it may be related to increasing cannabis use across diverse populations. However, normalization through Telegram may simultaneously provide users with detailed product information, promote informed decision-making, and encourage indigenous harm-reduction strategies. This paradoxical impact underscores t…
Global patterns in small-scale cannabis growers’ distribution practices
We discuss the implications of the findings on the structural process of import-substitution in low-end cannabis markets, including a growing normalization of cannabis supply
Are cannabis use problems comparable across individuals using for recreational and medical purposes? An international cross-sectional study of individuals who use self-grown cannabis
A Qualitative Investigation Into the Experiences of Medicinal Cannabis Use Among Chronic Pain and PTSD Patients in Israel
In the last two decades, the use of cannabis for medical purposes has become legal in many countries and its use is steadily increasing. One of the most frequently cited reasons for prescribing medicinal cannabis (MC) is management of chronic pain, and in recent years MC has also been used as a treatment of psychiatric conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, little is known about patients' experiences of the long-term p…
Media Framing of Causes, Risks, and Policy Solutions for Cannabis-Impaired Driving
Driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) is a major cause of preventable death and a growing public health concern. News media coverage of DUIC may influence public perceptions of causal factors for DUIC, risks of DUIC, and potential policy solutions. This study examines Israeli news media coverage of DUIC, and contrasts media coverage according to whether news items refer to cannabis use for medical vs. non-medical purposes. We conducted a…
Daily diary study of associations between alcohol, cannabis, co‐use and sleep quality in individuals with intentions to use cannabis to cope with anxiety
Taking the potential harms of psychedelic-assisted therapy seriously
Social forces shaping evidence production
Israeli news media coverage of Covid-19 and use of cannabis and tobacco
Too Much Information? Excessive Media Use, Maladaptive Coping, and Increases in Problematic Cannabis Use during the Covid-19 Pandemic
During a health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, the public depends on the media for accurate and up-to-date information. However, frequent use of media for COVID-19-related information may be associated with maladaptive coping, and with increased prevalence of substance use. This study examined indirect associations between the frequency of media use for information about COVID-19 and increases in cannabis use behaviors through maladaptive cop…
Medical cannabis and cognitive performance in middle to old adults treated for chronic pain
Medical Cannabis Use and Pain
Background: Little research has tested associations of pain and MC use after long-term treatment and through methods that have external validity outside experimental settings. The study examined associations of pain, associated painful experiences, and long-term medical cannabis (MC) use in chronic pain (CP) patients using a naturalistic daily diary study that provided novel and externally valid data. Methods: Data were obtained from 78 MC users …
Attitudes Toward the Use of Medical Cannabis and the Perceived Efficacy, Side-effects and Risks
Gaps between physician and patient perceptions may lead to misunderstandings and mismanage of treatment. There are sparse data about the differences in opinions toward medical cannabis (MC) between patients and health professionals. The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes toward MC, its perceived efficacy, side effects and risk of dependency, among patients, nurses and physicians. A cross-sectional study of samples of 430 patients, 65 …
Trends in medical cannabis licensure, Israel, 2013–2018
Cannabis and synthetic cannabinoid exposure reported to the Israel poison information center
"Medical Cannabis" as a Contested Medicine
Few empirical studies have explored how different types of knowledge are associated with diverse objectivities and moral economies. Here, we examine these associations through an empirical investigation of the public policy debate in Israel around medical cannabis (MC), which may be termed a contested medicine because its therapeutic effects, while subjectively felt by users, are not generally recognized by the medical profession. Our findings in…
Engagement with medical cannabis information from online and mass media sources
The challenges and benefits of analyzing feedback comments in surveys
It is common practice in survey questionnaires to include a general open and non-directive feedback question at the end, but the analysis of this type of data is rarely discussed in the methodological literature. While these open-ended comments can be useful, most researchers fail to report on this issue. The aim of this article is to illustrate and reflect upon the benefits and challenges of analyzing responses to open-ended feedback questions. …
Medical cannabis
Rhetorical and regulatory boundary-work
You Brought it on Yourself
This study uses a web-based randomized experiment (N = 396) to test the effects of message type (narrative vs. expository), stigma (stigmatized vs. nonstigmatized illness), and attribution of responsibility for disease (internal vs. external) on attitudes toward medical cannabis. Narrative-formatted videos produced more favorable attitudes toward medical cannabis, compared with nonnarrative videos. Effects of narratives on attitudes were mediated…
Rhetorical and regulatory boundary-work
Mass Media as an HIV-Prevention Strategy
The evidence base and theoretical frameworks for mass media HIV-prevention campaigns in the United States are not well-developed. We describe an intervention approach using culturally sensitive mass media messages to enhance protective beliefs and behavior of African American adolescents at risk for HIV. This approach exploits the potential that mass media messages have, not only to reach a large segment of the adolescent population and thereby s…
The challenges and benefits of analyzing feedback comments in surveys
It is common practice in survey questionnaires to include a general open and non-directive feedback question at the end, but the analysis of this type of data is rarely discussed in the methodological literature. While these open-ended comments can be useful, most researchers fail to report on this issue. The aim of this article is to illustrate and reflect upon the benefits and challenges of analyzing responses to open-ended feedback questions. …
Exploring substance use normalization among adolescents
Drug Normalization and the Case of Sweden
In relation to drug use research the concept of normalization is most commonly connected to Parker and his colleagues' “drug normalization thesis”. In their work the researchers lay down their account of what they see as a “cultural accommodation” of drug use. This recent conception of normalization has, however, not developed in a vacuum. As this article shows, normalization is a concept with a long history and various meanings and connotations.…
Medical Cannabis
Medical cannabis is a topic of increasing debate. To investigate this issue, we conducted a content analysis of Israeli news coverage of medical cannabis from 2007 to 2013. A deductive framing analysis examined three elite issue frames—medical, policy, and law enforcement. Additionally, inductive analysis revealed a a fourth, nonelite patients’ frame. Each frame was associated with a distinct pattern of textual elements, including portrayal of pa…
Student Drug Testing in the Context of Positive and Negative School Climates
"Medical Cannabis" as a Contested Medicine
Few empirical studies have explored how different types of knowledge are associated with diverse objectivities and moral economies. Here, we examine these associations through an empirical investigation of the public policy debate in Israel around medical cannabis (MC), which may be termed a contested medicine because its therapeutic effects, while subjectively felt by users, are not generally recognized by the medical profession. Our findings in…
Condom Failure
The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning and context of self-reported "condom failure" among sexually active African American adolescents. Semistructured interviews regarding methods of protection from pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) with 124 youth (ages 14-19 years) were content analyzed. The findings suggested three meanings of condom failure. First, condom failure represents a legitimate and important risk related …
An examination of the normalisation of cannabis use among 9th grade school students in Sweden and Switzerland
This article attempts to improve the models and theories researchers use when investigating drug use in the normal population. The study systematically investigates two dimensions of the normalisation thesis, namely behavioural and cultural normalisation. Whilst the former is measured based on national prevalence rates, the measurement of the latter dimension is based on parameters used in social control theory. More concretely, cultural normalis…
Drug Normalization and the Case of Sweden
In relation to drug use research the concept of normalization is most commonly connected to Parker and his colleagues' “drug normalization thesis”. In their work the researchers lay down their account of what they see as a “cultural accommodation” of drug use. This recent conception of normalization has, however, not developed in a vacuum. As this article shows, normalization is a concept with a long history and various meanings and connotations.…
Mass Media as an HIV-Prevention Strategy
The evidence base and theoretical frameworks for mass media HIV-prevention campaigns in the United States are not well-developed. We describe an intervention approach using culturally sensitive mass media messages to enhance protective beliefs and behavior of African American adolescents at risk for HIV. This approach exploits the potential that mass media messages have, not only to reach a large segment of the adolescent population and thereby s…
Condom Failure
The purpose of this study was to explore the meaning and context of self-reported "condom failure" among sexually active African American adolescents. Semistructured interviews regarding methods of protection from pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) with 124 youth (ages 14-19 years) were content analyzed. The findings suggested three meanings of condom failure. First, condom failure represents a legitimate and important risk related …
Long Term Effects of Community-Based STI Screening and Mass Media HIV Prevention Messages on Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American Adolescents
Student Drug Testing in the Context of Positive and Negative School Climates
Exploring substance use normalization among adolescents
Examining differences in drinking patterns among Jewish and Arab university students in Israel
The current study confirms distinct Arab drinking patterns found in previous studies. The present study is the first demonstration that drinking expectations mediate ethno-religious differences in heavy drinking among Israeli Arabs and Jews. This work contributes to the understanding of ethno-religious group differences in harmful drinking, potentially informing future etiologic research and public health interventions aimed at reducing alcohol-r…
Is cannabis an illicit drug or a medicine? A quantitative framing analysis of Israeli newspaper coverage
Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes and public health and safety
Medical Cannabis
Medical cannabis is a topic of increasing debate. To investigate this issue, we conducted a content analysis of Israeli news coverage of medical cannabis from 2007 to 2013. A deductive framing analysis examined three elite issue frames—medical, policy, and law enforcement. Additionally, inductive analysis revealed a a fourth, nonelite patients’ frame. Each frame was associated with a distinct pattern of textual elements, including portrayal of pa…
You Brought it on Yourself
This study uses a web-based randomized experiment (N = 396) to test the effects of message type (narrative vs. expository), stigma (stigmatized vs. nonstigmatized illness), and attribution of responsibility for disease (internal vs. external) on attitudes toward medical cannabis. Narrative-formatted videos produced more favorable attitudes toward medical cannabis, compared with nonnarrative videos. Effects of narratives on attitudes were mediated…
Do recreational cannabis users, unlicensed and licensed medical cannabis users form distinct groups
Medical cannabis
Rhetorical and regulatory boundary-work
Engagement with medical cannabis information from online and mass media sources
The challenges and benefits of analyzing feedback comments in surveys
It is common practice in survey questionnaires to include a general open and non-directive feedback question at the end, but the analysis of this type of data is rarely discussed in the methodological literature. While these open-ended comments can be useful, most researchers fail to report on this issue. The aim of this article is to illustrate and reflect upon the benefits and challenges of analyzing responses to open-ended feedback questions. …
Trends in medical cannabis licensure, Israel, 2013–2018
Cannabis and synthetic cannabinoid exposure reported to the Israel poison information center
"Medical Cannabis" as a Contested Medicine
Few empirical studies have explored how different types of knowledge are associated with diverse objectivities and moral economies. Here, we examine these associations through an empirical investigation of the public policy debate in Israel around medical cannabis (MC), which may be termed a contested medicine because its therapeutic effects, while subjectively felt by users, are not generally recognized by the medical profession. Our findings in…
Medical cannabis and cognitive performance in middle to old adults treated for chronic pain
Medical Cannabis Use and Pain
Background: Little research has tested associations of pain and MC use after long-term treatment and through methods that have external validity outside experimental settings. The study examined associations of pain, associated painful experiences, and long-term medical cannabis (MC) use in chronic pain (CP) patients using a naturalistic daily diary study that provided novel and externally valid data. Methods: Data were obtained from 78 MC users …
Attitudes Toward the Use of Medical Cannabis and the Perceived Efficacy, Side-effects and Risks
Gaps between physician and patient perceptions may lead to misunderstandings and mismanage of treatment. There are sparse data about the differences in opinions toward medical cannabis (MC) between patients and health professionals. The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes toward MC, its perceived efficacy, side effects and risk of dependency, among patients, nurses and physicians. A cross-sectional study of samples of 430 patients, 65 …
Israeli news media coverage of Covid-19 and use of cannabis and tobacco
Too Much Information? Excessive Media Use, Maladaptive Coping, and Increases in Problematic Cannabis Use during the Covid-19 Pandemic
During a health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, the public depends on the media for accurate and up-to-date information. However, frequent use of media for COVID-19-related information may be associated with maladaptive coping, and with increased prevalence of substance use. This study examined indirect associations between the frequency of media use for information about COVID-19 and increases in cannabis use behaviors through maladaptive cop…
Psychology (28 obras) · Psychiatry (27 obras) · Cannabis (26 obras) · Medicine (25 obras) · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (21 obras) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Environmental health (9 obras) · Law (9 obras)