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New theories of nicotine‐psychosis link leave self‐medication behind
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.30427
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , causation , institutionalisation , cannabis , psychosis , self medication , nicotine , confounding , causality (physics) , psychology , smoking cessation , medicine , clinical psychology , political science , law , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics
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 to allay symptoms of the illness, by self‐medication or institutionalization) or by confounding (such as social factors or cannabis use).