Psychiatric illness in young people using cannabis: Evidence update

Medicine Today

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 72-74

  Tennant, Christopher ^a   Rey, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; ILLICIT DRUG; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOSIS; SELF MEDICATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 0037331137     PISSN: 1443430X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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