The implications of recent findings on the link between cannabis and psychosis

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-176

  Pollack, Harold A ^a   Reuter, Peter ^b  

^a The University of Chicago   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; POLICY; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WELLBEING;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MARIJUANA ABUSE; PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED; PUBLIC POLICY; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 33846215892     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01690.x     Document Type: Editorial

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