I am planning a study-project on emotionregulation and the bodily experience (bodily maps of emotions) of drug addicts. I am not sure, if I can mix useres of cannabis and useres of ecstasy for example in my sample. So I'm looking for literature/studies, wheather there are differences between users of stimulant drugs versus useres of sedating drugs regarding emotionregulation and/or the experience of emotions. I'm happy about any hints!
I think you can do. Stimulant use patients may shift to sedative-hypnotic use at sometimes, esp during nonavailability of stimulants. I see this in my clinical practice. So, I don't think there are differences related to the type of used substance.
You can have data on drug users (respondents) as a whole and compare it with a control group from general population and/or then you can compare subgroups with each other (marihuana users/MDMA users/metamphetamin users/opiate users).
I think there will be differences among subgroups.
In our research of psychiatric comorbidity in drug and alcohol users - there are big differences in each dimension of psychiatric symptoms among group of alcohol users, methaphetamine users and opiates users. I think emotions and emotion regulation are related to psychiatric symptoms or psychiatric disorders...
And the whole group of substance users is significantly different from the general population.
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