MORE CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS LINKS
The Australian Medical Association in Western Australia has confirmed that there is a strong link between cannabis use and depression.
(Source: Sunday Times 16 April 2006)
A Melbourne psychologist has confirmed that there is a hidden epidemic of cannabis induced psychosis with wards full of people that smoked cannabis as adolescents.
The New South Wales Mental Health Review Tribunal found four out of
five mentally ill patients that had been committed to an institution or
needed compulsory treatment had smoked cannabis regularly between
the ages of 12 and 21.
The tribunal conducted a five-year review of these mentally ill patients.
(Source: Melbourne Herald Sun 19 April 2006)
DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA COMMENTS-
Australian health care professionals are now confirming the link between cannabis use and mental illness which is confirming the many overseas medical studies known at this time.
These health care professionals are seeing first hand the damage to the human brain that cannabis causes.
These health care professionals and others are using terms like- epidemic, crisis and psychiatric wards full of drug affected patients.
Cannabis users need assistance to stop using illicit drugs before illicit drugs bring them to mental illnesses, depression and psychosis.
Many illicit drug users are violent which puts the health professionals and others at risk of physical harm.
Australia must provide illicit drug detoxification and rehabilitation programs to reduce the demand and substantially cut the number of users.
More detoxification & rehabilitation that gets illicit drug users drug free.
Court ordered and supervised detoxification & rehabilitation.
Less illicit drug users, drug pushers and drug related crimes.
13/2006