Cannabiskonsum bei Jugendlichen verdoppelt das Risiko für psychotische und bipolare Störungen: Eine Studie mit 463.396 Jugendlichen ergab, dass Cannabiskonsum im vergangenen Jahr während der Adoleszenz mit einem deutlich höheren Risiko für psychotische (verdoppelte), bipolare (verdoppelte), depressive und Angststörungen verbunden war.
Study: Adolescent Cannabis Use Linked to Doubling Risk of Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders
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Study: **Adolescent Cannabis Use Linked to Doubling Risk of Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders++
Adolescents who use cannabis could face a significantly higher risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders by young adulthood, according to a large new study published today in JAMA Health Forum. **The longitudinal study followed 463,396 adolescents ages 13 to 17 through age 26 and found that past-year cannabis use during adolescence was associated with a significantly higher risk of incident psychotic (doubled), bipolar (doubled), depressive and anxiety disorders.**
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2845356
Does it hint at directionality? This might just be adolescents who have mental health challenges are more likely to self-medicate. Rather than being using cannabis affects rates of mental health challenges.
I wonder if it’s the use or if those who decide to use are more likely to have underlying issues…
I have adhd and used as a high school student to deal with quieting my brain (was unmedicated otherwise). I wouldn’t be surprised if someone who is actively dealing with bipolar disorder would be more likely to hunt for dopamine
I mean, lots of women with Bipolar are high-masking and you would literally never know they were bipolar unless they have a traumatic event occur, or get pregnant, and then you have a post-partum demon you are now trapped with.
I imagine the effect is similar here rather than actually causing these conditions.
To address the questions that reddit always asks with these studies regarding whether those with psychiatric illness or risk of psychiatric illness are more likely to take cannabis, they partially controlled for this with pre-existing psychiatric diagnoses prior to first cannabis use. This does not fully control for those who are at risk of psychiatric illness but have not yet been diagnosed, but it’s quite difficult to control for those in an observational study.
I think while this question of directionality isn’t fully resolved here, I’ve seen enough studies published over and over again about the association of adolescents and later diagnosis of psychiatric illness, that I think the safest medical advice is that adolescents should have zero intake of cannabis until brain development has been completed.
In other known facts of science, cows go moo.
Wouldn’t doubt it with such high THC %’s …this isn’t 90s weed
Is this really new? This topic has been discussed for decades. 90s and 00s I was still assisting with drug enforcement work and this topic came up frequently. In relation to a variety of substances, including cannabis
I like to think it’s because weed is stronger than it used to be where the high was mellow. Now everyone likes to get stoned out of their minds with high levels of THC.
>The evidence increasingly points to the need for an urgent public health response — one that reduces product potency, prioritizes prevention, limits youth exposure and marketing and treats adolescent cannabis use as a serious health issue, not a benign behavior.
we should be firm in our efforts to prevent kids from using drugs but the rest of this response goes off the deep end. we’re not going to ban liquor because it’s worse for a teenager than beer. why should an objectively less harmful substance have more strict regulations than alcohol?
offering commentary like this along with the study shows a clear bias. imagine the equal and opposite on a pro-cannabis study. you wouldn’t consider taking the results seriously for a second.
As above so below. Vinegar makes rust dissolve and also rust is dissolved BY vinegar.