hashish to play in Development of the disease play a role
Maastricht (pte/02.03.2011/10: 00) - cannabis as teenagers or young adults increases the risk of psychosis. For this result, a team of researchers led by Jim van Os of Maastricht University http://maastrichtuniversity.nl has come. The researchers attended 1,900 persons over a period of ten years. Although the connection is known long ago was still unclear whether the hashish can cause the disease. The study, published in the British Medical Journal http://bmj.com .
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Research findings have very strong evidence that cannabis use is in the first place and it should not take people to the symptoms. Scientists from the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain joined at the beginning of the study from all those participants who had already consumed cannabis or reports from existing psychotic symptoms. The participants of the study conducted in Germany were between 14 and 24 years old. They were assessed three times within ten years in terms of their hashish use and psychotic symptoms.
It was found that cannabis increases the risk of psychotic symptoms significantly. This result also changed by considering other factors such as socioeconomic status, use of other drugs and not other psychiatric disorders. Three years ago cannabis in the UK by the government in Class B again. As the BBC reports that are done against the advice of its own experts who had argued that cannabis played only a minor role in the development of psychotic disorders.
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