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November 10, 2015, 9:58pm
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More generally - marijuana and other drugs have been known to speed up the onset of psychosis / schizophrenia. I don’t think any research has been done on K2 or Bath Salts (drug types) because they are too new.
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Hi I am just wondering What are the chances of Drug induced psychosis converting into schizophrenia. I was diagnosed having Drug induced psychosis and am scared of it turning into schizophrenia.
Did anyone here experience Drug induced psychosis ( must be from drug use ) Only to find out the symptoms came back everytime they stop medication without further drug use ???
Please Share experiences. Will be appreciated Thank you.
Dr. Tomas Paus, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto, has co-authored a study linking the use of marijuana among schizophrenia-prone adolescents to structural changes in the brain.
The study examines almost 1,600 subjects, some of whom did, and some of whom did not use marijuana before the age of 16. Some subjects had a high risk of schizophrenia, and some had a low risk, based on polygenic testing (testing numerous genetic locations for traits associated with schizophrenia).
The goal was to find the effect of cannabis use on the development of the cerebral cortex — the outer layer of brain tissue, which plays an important role in perception, memory, language…
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Smoking powerful skunk cannabis triples the risk of suffering a serious psychotic episode, scientists have found.
In the population studied by the researchers in South London, where cannabis use is widespread, the drug is linked to one quarter of all new cases of psychosis, the team found.
The findings add to a compelling body of evidence that smoking strong cannabis “tilts the odds” towards a person developing psychosis, which leads to schizophrenia in about half of cases.
The study found that those who smoked skunk every day had five times the normal risk of experiencing extended episodes in which they heard voices, suffered delusions or demonstrated erratic behaviour.
Sir Robin Murray…
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Synthetic cannabinoids are a class of designer drug molecules that bind to the same receptors to which cannabinoids (THC, CBD and many others) in cannabis plants attach. These novel psychoactive substances should not be confused with synthetic phytocannabinoids (obtained by chemical synthesis) or synthetic endocannabinoids from which they are in many aspects distinct.
Typically, synthetic cannabinoids are sprayed onto plant matter and are usually smoked, although they have also been ingested as ...