COVID-19使:

Kamna Mehra1,2, Jennifer Rup1,2, Jessica L Wiese1,2

  • 1Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S1, Canada.

BMC public health
|November 2, 2023
PubMed
概括

COVID-19大流行影响了大麻的使用,近一半的研究报告增加或开始使用. 诸如压力,孤立和先前存在的心理健康状况等因素与这些变化有关.

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