Premium
New study links cannabis and depression in pregnant women
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32267
Subject(s) - cannabis , depression (economics) , public health , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , sample (material) , environmental health , demography , sociology , nursing , economics , macroeconomics , chemistry , chromatography
Pregnant women with depression are more than three times as likely to use cannabis than those without depression, according to a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Despite data linking cannabis and depression in many populations, this is the first study to examine this relationship among pregnant women in a nationally representative sample, the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health stated in a news release. The findings are online in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence .