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Untreated neuro-divergent people tend to use recreational drugs for medicinal purposes. And psychoactive drug usage is directly linked with the early onset of o
by jklinger410 5y ago
Untreated neuro-divergent people tend to use recreational drugs for medicinal purposes. And psychoactive drug usage is directly linked with the early onset of otherwise dormant schizophrenia, as well as a myriad of other mental disorders.
There is no science to state that psychoactives cause these mental disorders. In fact, current medical science states the opposite, that psychoactives do NOT cause, but exacerbate, certain mental disorders.
Considering that both psychoative drug use and mental disorder rates are on the rise (some would argue due to improved screening, treatments, etc) I'm not sure how anyone could draw a conclusion from this.
If they want to prove that psychoactive use can cause mental disorder, they should approach it from a bio-chemical perspective.
- riemannzeta 5y agoPresented for your consideration without comment: https://adai.uw.edu/pubs/pdf/2017mjbipolar.pdf https://adai.uw.edu/pubs/pdf/2017mjbipolar.pdf
- tartoran 5y agoI find it somewhat funny that this is written by Susan A. Stoner, PhD, Research Consultant.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoPretty standard study that showing two things are correlated. The THC/CBD chart is misleading because none of the data is actually used to form the conclusions. The interesting thing is the "Use of Marijuana to Self-Medicate BD" study is useless. Monitoring a small number of bipolar people for 6 days will give you completely random results. It's too short a period to remove moods from the equation.
- thaw13579 5y agoTo be clear, there is science that is compatible with THC increasing the risk of psychosis (and perhaps that CBD is protective). I would agree that some are self medicating, but the data also shows that dosage, THC/CBD mixture, and age of use each elevate psychosis risk over random controls [1][2]. It would be great to do double blinded experiments to test this more definitely, but we don't due to unethical reasons. I think the differential legalization will provide useful data along those lines, though it will take some years. I also think it's important to distinguish between THC "exacerbating" an existing mental illness and triggering psychosis in otherwise healthy people who have a predisposition, due to genes and early life experience. We still don't have a clear idea exactly how to say who's predisposed. Plenty of reasons to take caution, in my opinion. [1] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24625/the-health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-the-current-state https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24625/the-health-effects-of-cann... [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30048-3/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
- jklinger410 5y agoI'm not trying to form a distinction between exacerbating and triggering psychosis in people who have a predisposition. But I think it's unfair to call them "otherwise healthy" as their psychosis, BPD, bi-polar, etc can manifest at any point in their life. It's fair to say that it triggers the early onset of a "dormant" mental disorder. My point being to say that it "causes" anything other than that trigger is currently unsupported.
- quickthrowman 5y ago> And psychoactive drug usage is directly linked with the early onset of otherwise dormant schizophrenia, as well as a myriad of other mental disorders. Citation please. Drug usage tends to begun around the same age schizophrenia is typically diagnosed.
- jklinger410 5y agohttps://childmind.org/article/marijuana-and-psychosis/ https://childmind.org/article/marijuana-and-psychosis/