Old research: Epidemiological analysis of alcohol and drug use as risk factors for psychotic experiences.

Summary:
non-users: 1
cannabis: 2
alcohol: 8(m)/3(f)

Time for the ACMD to review the legal status of alcohol?


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Epidemiological analysis of alcohol and drug use as risk factors for
psychotic experiences. Tien AY, Anthony JC.

Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene
and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.

Clinical and laboratory studies link alcohol and other drug use to the
occurrence of psychotic experiences, but epidemiologic evidence has been
lacking. In this study, the quantitative relationships between alcohol or
other drug use and psychotic experiences were examined by analysis of
prospective data from 4994 adult household residents sampled in a
multisite survey of mental disorders in the population, the NIMH
Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program. After control for sociodemographic
factors and preexisting psychiatric conditions, the risk for onset of
self-reported delusions or hallucinations was observed to be greater for
daily users of marijuana or cocaine and for users of anxiolytics or
sympathomimetics compared with nonusers. After control for daily cocaine
use and alcohol disorder, the risk of onset of psychotic experiences for
daily users of marijuana was double that for nonusers. Alcohol disorder in
men was associated with eightfold risk and in women with threefold risk.
Baseline depressive episodes, manic episodes, agoraphobia, and
obsessive-compulsive disorder also were associated with increased risk of
onset of psychotic experiences.

PMID: 2380692 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Phil Stovell, Hampshire, UK

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