The chicken and the egg - a systematic review of the relationship between recreational drug use and mental health in the general population
May 29, 2026 Benjamin Clayden, Movin Abeywickrema, Maria Bălăeţ preprint
Temporal relationships between the recreational use of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis with mental health challenges have been extensively reviewed. However, this is not the case for other widely consumed drugs. Between 7/6/23 and 3/12/23 we searched Web of Science, EMBASE, PsychINFO and MEDLINE databases for studies investigating temporal relationships between recreational drug use (RDU) and...