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Curr Neuropharmacol
January 2025
Clinic Villa Von Siebenthal, Rome, Italy.
Introduction/objective: Schizophrenia with substance use disorder is a complex clinical condition that may increase treatment resistance. Cannabis use disorder is frequently associated with psychosis and the causal link has still to be defined. Partial D2/3 agonists may ensure limbic dopamine release normalization while avoiding reduced frontocortical dopamine release, which would contribute to negative symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Med
December 2024
Department of Pharmacy, CHOC Children's Hospital, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
: Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS), associated with long-term cannabinoid use, has been increasingly observed in emergency room visits as more states in the U.S. have legislatively permitted medical and recreational marijuana use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuroSci
December 2024
Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Psychology Department, Western Washington University, 516 High Street, Bellingham, WA 98229, USA.
Volatile organic compounds, colloquially referred to as "terpenes", have been proposed to impact the therapeutic qualities that are traditionally ascribed to cannabis. However, the contribution of these terpenes in anxiety, at relevant levels and exposure methods common with cannabis use, is lacking empirical assessment. We tested the anxiolytic properties of two prominent cannabis terpenes, linalool and β-myrcene, in male and female mice using short duration vapor pulls to model human inhalation when combusting flower or vaping cannabis oil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychol Med
December 2024
The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Background: Adolescence is a critical period for preventing substance use and mental health concerns, often targeted through separate school-based programs. However, co-occurrence is common and is related to worse outcomes. This study explores prevention effects of leading school-based prevention programs on co-occurring alcohol use and psychological distress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cannabis is increasingly used and debates about the legalisation of the recreational use of cannabis are ongoing. In this prospective, placebo-controlled study in healthy volunteers not regularly consuming cannabis, subjective psychotropic and somatic effects after a single dose of intravenous THC were assessed and quantified over 48 h.
Methods: Twenty-five healthy volunteers received a single IV bolus of THC and 6 received normal saline.
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