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		<title>A generation under stress?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My thanks to the PinkStinks blog for pointing me towards a new report from Girlguiding UK and the Mental Health Foundation about girls mental health.
They surveyed 350 girls between the ages of 10 and 15 and held focus groups with 54 girls between the ages of 10 and 14.
One of the things they found was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2018&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impact of Cannabis and Other Drugs on Age at Onset of Psychosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Pushing Back I&#8217;ve come to this piece on Reuters which in turn led me to the abstract to a new piece of research on the links between use of cannabis and mental health problems.
Reuters report the findings this way:
Researchers from Spain have found a strong and independent link between cannabis use and the onset [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1647&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little off our normal territory, but given the concern there has been over the last year or so about the links between cannabis use amongst young people and mental health problems it might be of interest to readers:
Do you have a great idea for challenging mental health discrimination in your area?Open Up is pleased [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1438&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannabis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a paper in The Lancet on cannabis use and the links to mental health problems, which concludes (registration required):

The evidence is consistent with the view that cannabis increases risk of psychotic outcomes independently of confounding and transient intoxication effects, although evidence for affective outcomes is less strong. The uncertainty about whether cannabis causes psychosis is unlikely to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=714&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teen Troubles . . . or drugs?</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/teen-troubles-or-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times offers advice to those worried about how to distinguish between the slightly aberrant behaviour of many adolescents and the first signs of schizophrenia or allied conditions:
 After adolescent drug use, characteristics that would otherwise have remained covert become overt and the patient displays seriously odd, even psychotic, behaviour. If any parent or teacher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=683&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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