Individuals With Depression May Be More Than Twice As Likely To Use Cannabis Than Those Without Depression, Study Indicates

Healio (12/12, Gramigna) reports, “Individuals with depression were more than twice as likely to use cannabis than those without depression,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from the annual cross-sectional National Survey on Drug Use and Health to assess linear time trends of the prevalence of any, daily and nondaily past 30-day use and perceived great risk associated with regular cannabis use,” focusing on data “for 728,691 individuals aged 12 years or older.” The findings were published online Dec. 4 in the journal Addiction.

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— “People with depression twice as likely to use cannabis, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, December 12, 2019

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