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New theories of nicotine‐psychosis link challenge the old
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32453
Subject(s) - nicotine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , cannabis , psychosis , psychiatry , causation , confounding , causality (physics) , institutionalisation , psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , law
For some time, the link between cigarette smoking and schizophrenia has been clear. For decades, it has been assumed that this was due to one of two causes: “reverse causation” (smoking relative to the illness, by self‐medication or institutionalization) or by confounding (such as social factors or cannabis use).