Join us for the webinar entitled, "Substance Use Among Adolescents: Risk and Protective Factors", to be held on December 2, 2021 at 9:00 am Washington, DC time. The webinar is organized by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), the African Union Commission and the Colombo Plan, with the support of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcements Affairs (INL) of the U.S. Department of State.

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A total of 11 articles met the inclusion criteria for the metaanalysis: 7 for depression, 3 for anxiety, for suicidal ideation, and 3 for suicide attempts. To estimate the extent to which cannabis use during adolescence was associated with increased odds of developing depression in young adulthood, they pooled results from 7 studies.The pooled OR for depression during young adulthood among cannabis users compared with nonusers was 1.37. Cannabis use during adolescence was associated with increased odds of developing anxiety in young adulthood when pooling 3 studies. Suicidal ideation is a...

Aunque se han encontrado asociaciones entre el consumo de cannabis y la conduc ta suicida en población adulta y adolescente, dichas asociaciones se ven interferidas por numerosos factores de confusión, que no se incluyen, en su mayoría, en los estudios y que podrían expli car gran parte de las asociaciones referidas. Parece improbable que el consumo de cannabis ac túe como factor causal directo de suicidio consumado. Pero en cambio el consumo de cannabis sí podría actuar como factor causal indirecto de suicidio al generar o favorecer otras situaciones (como el consumo de otras sustancias...