Adolescent cannabis use and later development of schizophrenia

Re:Adolescent cannabis use and later development of schizoph... by meepmorp on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:20AM (#29936385)

Right, the fact that there's significant correlation between schizophrenia and cannabis use is well known, but I not aware that there's any decent evidence for or against causation. Schizophrenics have generally higher rates of substance use/abuse so a higher rate of cannabis use is not not odd, per se.

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Re:Adolescent cannabis use and later development of schizoph... by stevedekorte on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:45PM (#29937516)

IIRC, there's also a very high correlation between schizophrenia and early substance abuse/overuse in general (such as high alcohol/caffeine use). Are these substances causal too?

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Re:Adolescent cannabis use and later development of schizoph... by justsomehnguy on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:32PM (#29940724)

It is, but also there is a thing called 'self-medication'*.

As we know, global warming has a positive corellation with a decline of a pirate activity, but nobody yet discovered the cause.

* as a person who at least read some things on it - it should be really described as 'attempts at s.m.' but here we are

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Re:Adolescent cannabis use and later development of schizoph... by schizohn on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:47PM (#29937542)

there is casual evidence that alcohol and caffeine increase hospitalisations for schizos. With marihuana its a harder riddle, what is a cause of another, I guess you can ask the same about other substances and origin

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