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Teen cannabis use increases risk of suicidality and depression during young adulthood
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.30385
Subject(s) - cannabis , depression (economics) , psychiatry , public health , young adult , psychology , suicide prevention , clinical psychology , poison control , medicine , environmental health , developmental psychology , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
The risk at the individual level from cannabis use is moderate to low, in general. However, because so many adolescents are now consuming it, the number of young people who could develop depression and suicidality as a result is large, researchers have found. This is a problem that needs a public health policy response, they concluded in their study, published in the February issue of JAMA Psychiatry .