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Q: what is the connection between marijuana and schizophrenia?
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6/ 4/08 12:47pm
I have a lot of personal experience in this area. In a clinical sense, there is some evidence to suggest that marijuana use may be a triggering factor in the onset of schizophrenia. ( along with stress, genetic factors and so on )
In my own life , I was doing a lot of marijuana around the time I was first diagnosed about thirty years ago. I also know that for the first ten or fifteen years of my treatment I was using marijuana as self -medication to ease the problems that were not being solved at that time.
Marijuana is a psychologically addictive drug and can cause real problems if it is used by someone diagnosed with schizophrenia. Your health-care professional has more information on this topic for you .
Sincerely,
Don Fraser
6/ 4/08 5:27pm
Again I hate to be self promotional but in my recent book on the topic, I review all the studies on the link between marijuana and the onset of schizophrenia (http://www.cuttingforstone.com). It is quite controversial and a lot of people think that marijuana use and alcohol are forms of self medication. The disease is there and the person uses pot to try to deal with them.
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