Cannabis and Youth Mental Health: New Research on Cannabis Use in Adolescence and its Association with Serious Mental Illness
Presenter: Lynn Silver, MD, MPH, FAAP
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM mountain (12:00 PM to 1:00 PM eastern) with Q&A to follow
Cost: FREE using code FREE26 or $39 for 1 CE credit. Johnny’s Ambassadors is a NAADAC certified provider. To receive the CE credit, you must watch the watch the LIVE session.
Recording: Everyone who registers (free or paid) will automatically receive the recording as well. No CE credit will be given for watching the recording.
Description
In a one hour webinar Dr. Silver will describe new research on half a million California adolescents which showed cannabis use to be associated with doubling of risk for psychotic and bipolar disorders as well as increased risk for depression and anxiety. She will discuss how this research adds to existing knowledge on this issue and the debate on whether cannabis use is causal.
Learning Objectives
- Be aware of current research of the association of cannabis use with the risk with the most serious mental illness
- Be aware of current research of the association of cannabis use by teens with depression and anxiety
- Understand how these risks change or not with age and other factors
- Be aware of policy options to reduce risk
Speaker Bio
Pediatrician, public health researcher and advocate, Lynn Silver is Senior Advisor at the Public Health Institute (PHI) and Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco. She directs PHI’s Prevention Policy Group, including Getting it Right from the Start, a project of PHI founded in 2017 to support adoption of cannabis policies to better protect youth, public health and equity. Silver is an active researcher on cannabis regulatory policy and health outcomes, as well as other areas of disease prevention. She chaired the 2024 California High Potency Cannabis Scientific Committee report and served on the state’s Proposition 64 Advisory Group. She has worked widely on health policy as a researcher, educator, university dean, government official, and consumer advocate. She received her MD and MPH degrees and pediatric training from the Johns Hopkins University.
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