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The information I’d like to share comes from the CDC’s website on LGBT health. I recommend some of the people who wrote letters lately to check that out. The people who are expressing negative attitudes towards the LGBT community puts that community at further risk, this includes our LGBT youth. From the CDC’s site, according to data collected from the 2015 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, LGB students:
10% were threatened or injured with a weapon on school property.
34% were bullied on school property.
28% were bullied electronically.
18% had experienced physical dating violence.
18% were forced to have sexual intercourse at some point in their lives.
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Correlation does not mean causation, but that is why we do research to follow correlations in an effort to determine causation. Data linking marijuana use to people with suicidal ideation, attempts, and completed suicides are steadily increasing.
Many states, including Colorado, have made post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) an approved condition for medical marijuana. As a psychiatrist having treated many people with PTSD, I know that marijuana is not the answer, similarly to why benzodiazepines or alcohol are not the answer to treat PTSD.
Sure, these addictive substances work in terms of numbing the person so that they do not experience the symptoms. However, to keep the symptoms at bay, the person must use every day, sometimes all day long. This sets them up for developing cannabis or other substance use disorder and the possibility of psychotic symptoms or worsening psychotic symptoms from their PTSD.
Male, Black and Sexual Minorities Are Increasingly at Risk of Attempting Suicide According to Research Presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine
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Study finds significant racial and sexual differences for trends in high school students’ thinking, planning and attempting suicides from 1999 to 2019.
Male, Black and sexual minorities are increasingly at risk of attempting suicide – whether or not they’ve previously exhibited suicidal ideation or formulated a suicide plan new research suggests. INDIANAPOLIS (PRWEB) April 16, 2021 Male, Black and sexual minorities are increasingly at risk of attempting suicide – whether or not they’ve previously exhibited suicidal ideation or formulated a suicide plan new research suggests.
Sean Metcalf Every two years, thousands of Vermont teenagers are asked a series of questions about whether they are drinking alcohol, having sex, using drugs or engaging in other risky behaviors. In the most recent installment of the state survey, fewer teens reported drinking or cigarette smoking. On the rise, though, was cannabis use. The 2019 Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that the number of high school students who reported using pot in the last 30 days had ticked up to 27 percent from 24 percent in 2017. Experts say they aren t surprised but they are worried that even more teenagers will become users when the retail sale of marijuana becomes legal in Vermont next year. That s bad news, they add, because of the drug s effect on developing brains and the risk teenagers run of becoming dependent on it.