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Ellen Benoit

Researcher at National Development and Research Institutes

Publications -  46
Citations -  877

Ellen Benoit is an academic researcher from National Development and Research Institutes. The author has contributed to research in topics: Men who have sex with men & Population. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 43 publications receiving 729 citations. Previous affiliations of Ellen Benoit include New York University & Sarah Lawrence College.

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Smoking tobacco along with marijuana increases symptoms of cannabis dependence.

TL;DR: Using tobacco with marijuana - smoking blunts and "chasing" marijuana with tobacco - contributes to cannabis dependence symptoms and treatment for cannabis dependence may be more effective it addresses the issue of concurrent tobacco use.
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Organizing "mountains of words" for data analysis, both qualitative and quantitative.

TL;DR: This article reports on strategies for planning, organizing, collecting, managing, storing, retrieving, analyzing, and writing about qualitative data so as to most efficiently manage the mountains of words collected in large-scale ethnographic projects.
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Sessions, cyphers, and parties: settings for informal social controls of blunt smoking.

TL;DR: In this paper, a major ethnographic study of blunts/marijuana use in New York City observed several hundred marijuana users in group locations and conducted intensive interviews with 92 focal subjects.
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Dimensions of Oppression in the Lives of Impoverished Black Women Who Use Drugs

TL;DR: Grounded theory is used to identify multiple dimensions of oppression experienced by impoverished Black women who use drugs by examining several settings in which participants experience oppression.
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Not just a matter of criminal justice: States, institutions, and North American drug policy

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical approach to illicit-drug policy that emphasizes politics and institutions, as an alternative to dominant perspectives emphasizing social control, is proposed, and compared to the United States and Canada after 1980.