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Depression, Anxiety Three Times More Likely in People with Cannabis Use Disorder
Rates of comorbid major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder are three times higher in people who have cannabis use disorder, ameta-analysis in theJournal of Affective Disorders has found.Vivian N. Onaemo, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.B.S., of the Government of Saskatchewan Ministry of Health in Reginia, Canada, and colleagues analyzed data from eight articles from six epidemiological surveys published from January 1980 through July 2020. There were approximately 177,000 respondents among all six surveys, and the surveys were largely conducted in the United States and Australia.The odds of having major depression wer...
Source: Psychiatr News - December 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: cannabis cannabis use disorder depression general anxiety disorder Journal of Affective Disorders meta-analysis Source Type: research

Bringing WISDOM to Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Laura Esserman answers the door of her bright yellow Victorian home in San Francisco’s Ashbury neighborhood with a phone at her ear. She’s wrapping up one of several meetings that day with her research team at University of California, San Francisco, where she heads the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She motions me in and reseats herself at a makeshift home office desk in her living room, sandwiched between a grand piano and set of enormous windows overlooking her front yard’s flower garden. It’s her remote base of operations when she’s not seeing patients or operating at the hospita...
Source: TIME: Health - October 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news