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Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Cannabis Addiction Mental health

2 papers

A Multi-Level Analysis of Biological, Social, and Psychological Determinants of Substance Use Disorder and Co-Occurring Mental Health Outcomes

Cecilia Ilaria Belfiore, Valeria Galofaro, Deborah Cotroneo, Alessia Lopis, Isabella Tringali, Valeria Denaro, et al.
Psychoactives Summary & key facts 2024 40 citations

Researchers looked at sixty studies to see how biology, social life, and psychology mix together to affect substance use problems and mental health. They found that brain systems, genes, childhood experiences, parenting, personality, and existing mood or anxiety problems all interact. This makes addiction and related psychiatric symptoms complicated, especially…

Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Cannabis Other

Recommendations for Reducing the Risk of Cannabis Use-Related Adverse Psychosis Outcomes: A Public Mental Health-Oriented Evidence Review

Benedikt Fischer, Wayne Hall, Thiago Marques Fidalgo, Eva Hoch, Bernard Le Foll, María Elena Medina‐Mora, et al.
Journal of Dual Diagnosis Summary & key facts 2023 24 citations

This paper reviewed studies since 2016 to identify cannabis-related factors linked with higher risk of psychosis. It found that personal and genetic vulnerability, earlier age of first use, more frequent use, higher-THC products, how cannabis is taken, and using other drugs all raise the odds of cannabis-related psychosis. Evidence that…

Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Homelessness and Social Issues Cannabis
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