“The belief is that marijuana is safe to use, but we need to educate parents and children that there are risks associated with using particularly heavy and high-strength cannabis,” said study author Cynthia Fontanella, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Behavioral health At Ohio State University’s College of Medicine.
“And clinicians need to intervene to identify and treat children with marijuana use disorders as well as mood disorders,” Fontanella said.
The NID advises that “people who start using marijuana at age 18 are four to seven times more likely to develop marijuana use disorders than adults.” NIDA estimates that approximately one million people in the United States meet the criteria for diagnosing malaria use in 2001ID.
The first study in children
The new study uses Ohio Medicare data to identify both disorder and self-harm efforts and outcomes in 10- and 24-year-olds. The study could only show a link between cannabis dependence and negative outcomes, not a direct cause and effect.
Previous studies have shown that children with mood disorders are more likely to use and abuse marijuana, partly because they do not like the side effects of many of the prescribed drugs, Natanella said.
“Mood stabilizers and psychotropic drugs can cause weight gain, say up to 30 or 40 pounds … stiffness in their throat or eyes … and it can cause drowsiness,” Fontanella said. “Therefore, they may not be able to use their medications and may self-medicate with cannabis to treat mood disorders.”
It may also be that using weeds can contribute to the development of mood disorders.
Fontanella said research shows that marijuana use is associated with the onset of mood disorders, psychiatric and anxiety disorders, so it can lead to the onset of serious mental illness.
At this stage, however, science is not sure which comes first, partly because few if any studies have been done in adolescents and young adults.
“Research suggests that exposure to marijuana affects the brain’s ability to process emotions. Can anyone have harmful contact with this developed brain?” Dr. Luc Lucian Gonzalez, who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on substance use and prevention, said. Gonzalez was not involved in the study.
“It doesn’t prove that cannabis use causes depression or self-harm, but it certainly doesn’t contradict it,” said Gonzalez, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
“Complex associations seem to be found, and we don’t fully understand them yet,” Gonzalez said.
“Science facilitates responses,” said Fontanella and her team. They also called for a rollout A national study to further investigate the risk of death in young people and young adults struggling with excessive consumption of grass.
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