Who Uses Cannabis?

Patients with mental illness accounted for 83% of all U.S. cannabis consumption.

Cannabis seems to be used by many of our patients, who often say that it helps with anxiety and depression. But do they use cannabis more often than individuals in the general population? To find out, investigators compared cannabis use in the previous 12 months in more than 43,000 adults with or without 12-month mental illness who participated in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions from 2001 to 2002.

Respondents with 12-month mental illness (excluding substance-induced psychiatric disorders) had higher 12-month prevalence of cannabis use (9.9% vs. 4.0% in those without mental illness) and cannabis-use disorders (1.6% vs. 0.4%). People with mental illness accounted for 72% of all cannabis users and 82% of all …

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Jonathan Silver, MD

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RoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions

Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)

Jonathan Silver, MD

Disclosures

RoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions

Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Who Uses Cannabis?

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