A retrospective study of the role of long-acting injectable antipsychotics in preventing rehospitalization in early psychosis with cannabis use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite compelling evidence that cannabis use is associated with neurocognitive deficits, loss of cerebral gray matter, relapse and rehospitalization, a substantial number of individuals with early psychosis continue to use recreational or medicinal marijuana. One identified pathway to relapse is non-adherence. Recurrent relapses modify the trajectory of illness and culminate in long-term disability. Long-acting antipsychotic medications are superior to oral equivalents in preventing relapse.

Purpose

The current paper sought to examine the role of long-acting antipsychotics in preventing relapse in cannabis using early psychosis patients.

Methods

The present retrospective study, which was based in an early psychosis program in mid-Michigan, examined the ass

SUBMITTER: Rozin E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6888881 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature