Researchers say adolescent use of weed and amphetamines does not adversely affect future life success - via TheGrowthOp Cannabis
further notes that “current evidence indicates that adolescence is a sensitive period during which cannabis use may result in adverse neurocognitive effects that appear to show a level of permanency into adulthood.
Citing the importance of stopping drug use in early adulthood to avoid compromising adult health and well-being, the press release notes researchers are calling on policy-makers to address teen behaviour issues. Treatment should target individuals whose drug use persists beyond early adulthood, they say.
“What seems to best predict low life success outcomes is the persistence of cannabis and amphetamine use,” lead author Professor Jake Najman of the University of Queensland says in the statement. “Our findings linking problem behaviour and school problems in adolescence with drug use and life success represent an opportunity for policy-makers to alter the young person’s life trajectory,” Najman contends.
Given the high rates of drug use by adolescents, the press release cites authors as saying “more research is needed into interventions to prevent the persistence of drug use into adulthood, which is strongly linked to lower life success.”Share this Story: