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Acute psychotic symptoms linked to teen marijuana use
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30370
Subject(s) - paranoia , psychiatry , cannabis , anxiety , psychology , illicit drug , clinical psychology , medicine , drug
Many adolescent marijuana users report acute symptoms — paranoia, anxiety, or hallucinations — associated with their use of the drug, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have found. Rates of these symptoms were higher among regular users, those who met criteria for cannabis use disorder (CUD), and those who were also depressed.