Cannabis induced psychosis: A comparative study between cannabis use disorder and cocaine use disorder
Maurizio Coppola, Raffaella Mondola
preprint DOI: 10.20944/preprints202310.0311.v1 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Retrospective cohort study |
|---|---|
| Population | Outpatients with cannabis use disorder or cocaine use disorder and no personal or family history of psychiatric illnesses |
| Topics | Cannabis |
| Key findings | The study compared the prevalence of substance-induced psychosis between patients with cannabis use disorder and those with cocaine use disorder. |
Abstract
Psychosis can be defined as a combination of psychopathological symptoms including delusions and/or hallucinations without insight. Psychotic disorders may configure a primary psychiatric illness or represent the result of a functional/structural brain damage induced by substance use, neurological diseases or other medical conditions. They are multifactorial disorders in which genetic, environmental and gene-environment interaction factors contribute to the expressiveness of the symptoms. Among the environmental factors, psychotropic substances represent the most important removable facilitators of psychosis. In our study, we compared the prevalence of substance induced psychosis between a sample of patients affected by cannabis use disorder and a sample of patients affected by cocaine use disorder analyzing retrospectively the data of outpatients with no personal or family history of psychiatric illnesses.