Re:Cannabis use linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiet...
by buffington on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:30PM
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Am I right in seeing that the data referenced in that article was collected between 2001-2004? If so, I wonder how that compares to today. I suspect we'd see much higher numbers for data collected 2019-2023, given the pandemic and associated garbage fires.
NIH says:
> An estimated 19.1% of U.S. adults had any anxiety disorder in the past year.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disor...
That's pretty high already, and I imagine the base rates for anxiety developing among "people who have to be hospitalized for any reason" are much higher than the general pop.