{"id":89208,"date":"2020-05-19T09:09:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=89208"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:09:42","slug":"researchers-consider-marijuana-use-and-mental-health-in-emergency-department-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/19\/researchers-consider-marijuana-use-and-mental-health-in-emergency-department-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers consider marijuana use and mental health in emergency department patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89224\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/19\/researchers-consider-marijuana-use-and-mental-health-in-emergency-department-patients\/catherine-marco\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89224\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2020\/05\/Catherine-Marco-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marco, professor of emergency medicine and surgery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Led by Catherine Marco, M.D., professor of emergency medicine and surgery, students at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wright.edu\/\">Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine<\/a> have helped to complete a study into the connection between marijuana use and mental health. Results of the analysis may spur future research into the understudied impacts of marijuana use.<\/p>\n<p>The research study surveyed patients who visited the emergency department at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton between May and September 2019. Miami Valley Hospital is an inner-city, Level 1 Trauma Center with a typical annual patient volume of 95,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea for this study came from our experience in the emergency department,\u201d Marco said. \u201cWe frequently see patients who use marijuana and also experience mental health conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medical student researchers interviewed emergency department patients to collect data on patients who use marijuana and also experience mental health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Among the findings, Marco and colleagues found that many emergency department patients use marijuana and experience mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Many started using marijuana at a young age (as young as 6 years old).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost patients started using marijuana at a young age and developed mental health symptoms after,\u201d Marco said. \u201cWe also found that patients who used marijuana frequently experienced more days of anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results weren\u2019t surprising for Marco. She often sees patients in the emergency department who use marijuana and experience mental health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that more research will be done on this topic, to inform the public about potential dangers of marijuana use,\u201d Marco said.<\/p>\n<p>More information is needed about the safety of marijuana so that the public can be educated about its effects. This study is just one of many going on around the country that are considering the impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical student researchers interviewed emergency department patients to collect data on patients who use marijuana and also experience mental health conditions. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/19\/researchers-consider-marijuana-use-and-mental-health-in-emergency-department-patients\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":89220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,4265,2016,715,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-research-medicine","category-medicine","category-news","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89236,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89208\/revisions\/89236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}