Janey's plain language summary blog: Cannabis and schizophrenia
I have now written a number of plain language summaries for the reviews in the Cochrane Collaboration. Every time I read a new review I think ‘oh, good this will contain the answers to all my questions on a specific subject’. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that.
So for the cannabis review they were asking the questions about how cannabis and psychosis interact? Also, does telling people about a potential link between cannabis and psychosis change their behaviour with regard to the drug? And I thought ‘oh good, evidence to help Governments make decisions on its classification and answers for people who want to know whether it is helpful or harmful’.
But no…, there has only been one small systematic trial in Australia and they were looking at whether teaching people about cannabis changed the way they used it. It didn’t in this small group so the question still hangs in the air and Governments go with media pressure or ignore the problem.
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