Dr. Andy Hyatt
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Dr. Andy Hyatt is a psychiatrist at the Cambridge Health Alliance near Boston.
Me and many of my colleagues have been seeing over the past several years just a marked rise in the rates of cannabis use among people with serious mental illness.
Most of his patients have schizophrenia, which can cause psychosis.
And Hyatt and his colleagues wanted to know if what they were seeing in their clinics represented a national trend.
So they looked at a national data set of more than 50,000 adults that scientists had followed from 2014 to 2022.
More than 1,800 of those were individuals with psychosis.
After states legalized recreational cannabis, past-month use of the drug in people with psychosis went up by more than 9 percent, compared to only 3 percent for the general population.
Dr. Andy Hyatt is a psychiatrist at the Cambridge Health Alliance near Boston.
Me and many of my colleagues have been seeing over the past several years just a marked rise in the rates of cannabis use among people with serious mental illness.
Most of his patients have schizophrenia, which can cause psychosis.
And Hyatt and his colleagues wanted to know if what they were seeing in their clinics represented a national trend.
So they looked at a national data set of more than 50,000 adults that scientists had followed from 2014 to 2022.
More than 1,800 of those were individuals with psychosis.
After states legalized recreational cannabis, past month use of the drug in people with psychosis went up by more than 9%, compared to only 3% for the general population.