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‘Cannabis use disorder is common among adolescents and young adults with mood disorders and is associated with an elevated risk of self-harm, overall mortality, and death by unintentional overdose and homicide in this already vulnerable population.’ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2775255?guestAccessKey=52ce4b66-47b9-4466-99cb-ce5bc63644e2&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamapediatrics&utm_content=olf&utm_term=011921
Daily Mail write-up of this study:-
‘US researchers studied more than 200,000 teens with mood disorders
Found ten per cent of these were diagnose with 'cannabis use disorder'
This condition linked to 3.28 times higher risk of non-fatal self harm’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9164201/Teenagers-mental-health-disorders-smoke-marijuana-THREE-times-likely-self-harm.html
‘US researchers studied more than 200,000 teens with mood disorders
Found ten per cent of these were diagnose with 'cannabis use disorder'
This condition linked to 3.28 times higher risk of non-fatal self harm’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9164201/Teenagers-mental-health-disorders-smoke-marijuana-THREE-times-likely-self-harm.html
Another recent Cannabis study, this time among military veterans. It found that:-
‘Cannabis use is associated with primarily negative outcomes, including other substance use, greater psychiatric severity, and self-harm/suicidality.’ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735821000015
‘Cannabis use is associated with primarily negative outcomes, including other substance use, greater psychiatric severity, and self-harm/suicidality.’ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272735821000015
‘Cannabis use is associated with suicide risk in the general population....it is unknown if this association is also present in patients with OUD....Cannabis use is associated with a heightened propensity for suicidal ideation amongst patients with OUD’ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33337662/
‘Preadolescents and adolescents should avoid using cannabis as use is associated with a significant increased risk of developing depression or suicidality in young adulthood’ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2723657?guestAccessKey=ce5d508f-1782-42fc-9c88-3df4f499c613&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamanetwork&utm_content=weekly_highlights&utm_term=042719&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&hootPostID=946582fb907865abbf7e31d0795a3c09
‘Marijuana use does not only influence the onset of suicidal attempts but also repeated attempted suicide among SHS students in Ghana.’ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33195989/
‘Results suggest marijuana, especially for military personnel experiencing elevated PTSD symptoms may negatively impact suicidal thoughts and behaviour’ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/da.22954
‘Not only were those who smoked marijuana more likely to suffer depression and suicidal thoughts, they were also more than three times as likely to attempt suicide between the ages of 18 and 32.’ https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20190213/teen-pot-use-linked-to-later-suicide-risk
‘In the most recent data on Colorado adolescent suicides, marijuana was the most common substance present for ages 10–19 in 2016...... This trend has been increasing since liberalization of marijuana policy in 2010’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6625695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6625695/
