USA Today (1/6, O’Donnell) reports that with the increasing legalization of marijuana, “parents of children who make up the mounting cases of cannabis-induced psychosis and other mental illness say treatment is far less available than the pot they say is linked to the conditions.” The current “rise in psychosis, schizophrenia and suicide among young, heavy users comes amid a shortage in” physicians “and facilities to treat them.” USA Today adds, “It wasn’t until 2013 that the Diagnostic Statistical Manual – the physicians’ bible for recognized mental health conditions – added a ‘cannabis-use-disorder’ section.”
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— “As marijuana-induced psychosis rises, parents say treatment for young people hard to find, “Jayne O’Donnell, USA Today, January 6, 2020