Re:Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suic...
by jeremysmyth on Friday March 06, 2015 @05:41AM
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From the abstract: "After adjusting for [factors including] childhood depression, we found no significant associations between lifetime use of psychedelics and increased likelihood of [mental health problems in the past year]."
Yet: "Psychedelic users were more likely than non-users to report a depressive episode before age 18."
Taken together, these are curious findings, because they're deliberately ignoring something that turned out to be a clear correlation, even one that might be the result of a causality in the reverse direction to one that might be otherwise presumed.
Yet: "Psychedelic users were more likely than non-users to report a depressive episode before age 18."
Taken together, these are curious findings, because they're deliberately ignoring something that turned out to be a clear correlation, even one that might be the result of a causality in the reverse direction to one that might be otherwise presumed.