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Michael Scherer
Researcher at Pacific Institute
Publications - 38
Citations - 625
Michael Scherer is an academic researcher from Pacific Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Heroin. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 38 publications receiving 546 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Scherer include Johns Hopkins University.
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Early Onset of Drug and Polysubstance Use as Predictors of Injection Drug Use Among Adult Drug Users
TL;DR: Consistent with literature on early substance initiation and later illicit substance use, early onset of alcohol and polysubstance use is an important risk factor for IDU in adulthood.
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Forgiveness and the bottle: Promoting self-forgiveness in individuals who abuse alcohol
TL;DR: People undergoing a routine alcohol treatment protocol and those in the intervention condition reported more positive gains on measures of self-forgiveness and drinking refusal efficacy, as well as guilt and shame over alcohol-related offenses.
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Latent class analysis of polysubstance use, sexual risk behaviors, and infectious disease among South African drug users
Rebecca C. Trenz,Michael Scherer,Alexandra Duncan,Paul T. Harrell,Anne Gloria Moleko,William W. Latimer +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Latent class analysis was used to identify patterns of drug use among polysubstance users within a high HIV prevalence population, and four classes of substance use were found: MJ+Cig (40.8%), MJ+Her (30.8), Crack (24.7%), and Low Use (3.7%).
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Forgiveness-reconciliation and communication-conflict-resolution interventions versus retested controls in early married couples.
Everett L. Worthington,John W. Berry,Joshua N. Hook,Don E. Davis,Michael Scherer,Brandon J. Griffin,Nathaniel G. Wade,Mark A. Yarhouse,Jennifer S. Ripley,Andrea J. Miller,Constance B. Sharp,David E. Canter,Kathryn L. Campana +12 more
TL;DR: The Hope-Focused Approach to couple enrichment was presented as two 9-hr interventions--(a) Handling The authors' Problems Effectively (HOPE), which emphasized communication and conflict resolution, and (b) Forgiveness and Reconciliation through Experiencing Empathy (FREE).
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Assessing the Impact of Twenty Underage Drinking Laws
TL;DR: The nine effective minimum legal drinking age 21 (MLDA-21) laws are estimated to be currently saving approximately 1,135 lives annually, yet only five states have enacted all nine laws.