LUSA // Cannabis-associated Psychiatric Hospitalizations Increased Nearly 30 Times in 15 Years

Researchers from CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) concluded that hospitalizations due to psychotic breakdown or schizophrenia in patients who use cannabis increased almost 30 times in 15 years.

The news is from Agência Lusa and reports on the results of a paper published in the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research that analyzed the hospitalizations registered in all public hospitals in mainland Portugal, from 2000 to 2015.

“If we consider all hospitalizations for psychotic breakdown or schizophrenia, we will see that in 2015, more than 10% of these cases corresponded to patients with a secondary diagnosis of cannabis use, while in 2000 they were less than 1%,” explained the researcher Manuel Gonçalves-Pinho, one of the authors of this study.