One of the key issues talked about when it comes to cannabis is its effects on mental health. An estimated 26.2% of people with schizophrenia will have cannabis use disorder at some point in their lives, which is much higher than in the general public.(1) While some people with psychotic disorders say cannabis helps them to deal with their symptoms,…

Heidar Sharafi, a postdoctoral trainee in our laboratory, recently published an article in the prestigious Addiction scientific journal in collaboration with Hamzah Bakouni, Christina Mcanulty, Sarah Drouin, Stephanie Coronado-Montoya and Arash Bahremand. This systematic review and meta-analysis focused on the use of prescription psychostimulants as a replacement therapy for amphetamine-type stimulant use disorder. By synthesizing the results of ten randomized…

Doctoral candidate in psychiatric sciences Ovidiu Tatar, along with a team of Canadian and international researchers, has recently published in a prestigious psychiatry journal the results of a study that evaluated preferences of young adults with psychosis for online psychological interventions for decreasing cannabis use. Cannabis dependence is up to 15 times higher in young adults with psychosis compared to the…