These adults answered questions about cannabis use or disorder, major depressive episodes and suicidality -- which includes suicidal ideation, plans or attempts -- in the past year. Participants whose families earned $49,999 or less were also generally more likely than families with higher incomes to experience suicidal ideation, planning, suicide attempts and daily or near-daily cannabis use. How does cannabis use, if at all, interact with the sustaining of depressive cognition and/or suicidal thinking on the individual level?" Being unemployed and having a lower income, regardless of cannabis use, are risks for suicidality, Gonzalez said. These economic conditions could "also could interact with cannabis use in ways that need to continue to be explored," Gonzalez said.
Cannabis use has been associated with a higher likelihood of thinking about suicide in young adults, according to a study from the US National Institutes of Health published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open. The survey study examined data from more than 281,000 adults ages 18 to 34, who participated in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health from 2008 to 2019. These adults answered questions about cannabis use or disorder, major depressive episodes and suicidality -- which includes suicidal ideation, plans or attempts -- in the past year. Participants were considered to have cannabis use disorder if they had developed tolerance; used cannabis...
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