Longitudinal assessment of the effect of cannabis use on hospital readmission rates in early psychosis: a 6-year follow-up in an inpatient cohort

In recent years, more attention has been paid to the public health impact of cannabis use, especially by young adults (Hall and Lynskey, 2016) with evidence of a growing prevalence of regular cannabis use worldwide, with approximately 200 million users (National Academies of Sciences, 2017). Convergent and replicated findings indicate that cannabis use can induce psychotic symptoms (Henquet et al., 2005; Skinner et al., 2011; van Gastel et al., 2012) and increase the risk of developing a psychotic disorder (Colizzi and Murray, 2018; Moore et al., 2007; Radhakrishnan et al., 2014; Sami et al., 2017), especially in young and vulnerable individuals with a history of heavy use (Colizzi et al., 2015a; Colizzi et al., 2015b).

Source: Psychiatry Research - August 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Marco Colizzi, Natoy Burnett, Rosalia Costa, Mattia De Agostini, James Griffin, Sagnik Bhattacharyya Source Type: research