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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/93841| Title: | Should we advise patients with serious mental illness to stop using cannabis? |
| Authors: | Grech, Anton |
| Keywords: | Marijuana -- Physiological effect Marijuana -- Psychological aspects Marijuana abuse -- Complications Psychoses -- Etiology Schizophrenia -- Etiology |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Citation: | Grech, A. (2008). Should we advise patients with serious mental illness to stop using cannabis?. Psychological Medicine, 38(3), 459-459. |
| Abstract: | Advising patients with serious mental illness to stop their cannabis intake tends to be unpopular with patients, and also with some psychiatrists. Patients enjoy using cannabis, and can perceive it as being therapeutically beneficial. Thus, their reluctance to stop their cannabis intake is understandable. The argument of psychiatrists and other mental health-care professionals against giving such advice is that since the effect of cannabis on psychosis is nothing or negligible, psychiatry must not portray itself as a ‘killjoy’ profession, because this could lead to fewer mentally ill patients trusting psychiatrists to help them. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/93841 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SPsy |
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