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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:53 PM Original message |
Alcohol abuse is a four times better predictor of psychosis than pot abuse.. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. Funny that...I thought psychosis predisposition was a predictor of pot/alcohol usage |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I just put this up in answer to the multiple threads about pot causing psychosis.. |
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blue neen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Honestly, I was thinking the same thing. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Or even that they will be less inhibited, more explorative, and have less regard for social norms |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. "Cart before the horse" syndrome is on the rise. nm |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. Customary lack of understanding of alcoholism prevails. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I doubt there is anyone on DU that isn't at least marginally aware of alcoholism as a disease.. |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. Social isolation also increases the risk of psychosis |
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suede1 (770 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. K & R. |
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BakedAtAMileHigh (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. but but but i saw reefer madness! |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
10. Correlation is not causation, and it is not prediction either. |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. Should have stopped at "Alcohol abuse is a four times better". |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. But alcohol really does kill brain cells.. |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:24 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Point being? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 06:03 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Whut wer wee talkinnn aboot? |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
12. being a californian living in texas causes absolute psychosis. |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
14. It's true. |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:25 PM Response to Original message |
15. A link (correlation) is not causation. The people who later developed schizophrenia might have had |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I think the usage "factor of four" is OK. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. You are thinking of "order of magnitude" which is powers of ten.. |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:40 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Thanks. nt |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Factor is used in simpler sense here. 4 indicating 4 times more, or a factor of 4. |
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brewens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
16. If I'm around redneck alcohol junkies I love to say, "I don't do heavy drugs", |
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