Researchers from CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) studied the number of hospitalizations due to psychotic breaks associated with cannabis use and concluded that there has been an increase in recent years.
Manuel Gonçalves-Pinho, CINTESIS and FMUP researcher and author of this study, spoke to SIC about the possible reasons for this increase.
The study, published in the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, analyzed hospitalizations in all public hospitals in mainland Portugal from 2000 to 2015. In total, the research team recorded 3,233 hospitalizations, which ranged from 20 hospitalizations in 2000 to 588 hospitalizations identified in 2015.
Besides Manuel Gonçalves-Pinho, the researchers Miguel Bragança and Alberto Freitas, researcher in the field of Data Analysis at CINTESIS and professor at FMUP.