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| Cannabis Use Tied to Schizophrenia Conversion -- Similar links found with amphetamine and opioid abuse |
| 2018-04-26 |
[MedPageToday] Something most of us know intuitively, that mentally fragile people tend to get worse after taking cannabis, amphetamines &/or opoids. Study comes from Denmark, which collects such statistics very carefully. Of interest are the "HR"s - "Hazard Ratios" Hjorthoj and colleagues also examined amphetamine and opioid misuse, which had stronger associations with conversion than did cannabis use: |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #9 This is my problem as a libertarian. Freedom versus someone is gonna overdo it and we have to deal the fallout (medical expenses or really damaging votes). |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-26 18:58 |
| #8 That would be the truth, yes. You can buy really powerful pot at a recreational dispensary. OTOH you can buy really potent booze at a liquor store. Neither is very good for a psychotic to consume. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2018-04-26 16:33 |
| #7 I don't know the truth of it but I've been told cannabis strains now are far stronger than they were in the 80s. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-26 15:27 |
| #6 Oh...that's what happened. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-04-26 13:57 |
| #5 Part of the problem is that the drug-using corner of the internet is full of claims that pot is absolutely harmless, and that all scientific reports to the contrary are the lies of fun-hating Puritans. The other part of the problem is that exactly those mentally fragile individuals most at risk are blind to the fact that they mentally abnormal. My girlfriend’s schizophrenic son, the one who murdered his grandmother at the orders of St. Michael because she was a zombie, insisted that he was perfectly sane and not in need of treatment until after he had been forcibly medicated for months while in jail awaiting trial. He reports that some of the residents on the prison psych ward still will stop taking their meds, because even in prison —in Pennsylvania at least — they cannot be forced to take their daily pills until they have yet again become psychotic. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-26 10:00 |
| #4 Mentally fragile people get worse after alcohol too, or any large doses of mood or mind altering drugs. Some people just need to be put in a padded room with nothing sharper than a crayon. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-04-26 09:34 |
| #3 Dunno. Maybe we should let the lefties keep smoking the grass and become even more skitzo. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-26 01:29 |
| #2 This is not news! True, but VERY un-PC for the current maniacs who want to legalize marijuana. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-26 01:23 |
| #1 From us in the medical field. This is not news! A plus B equals C. |
| Posted by: texhooey 2018-04-26 01:11 |