{"id":15236,"date":"2019-03-11T18:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=15236"},"modified":"2019-05-08T18:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:22:51","slug":"changes-in-cannabis-potency-and-first-time-admissions-to-drug-treatment-a-16-year-study-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2019\/03\/changes-in-cannabis-potency-and-first-time-admissions-to-drug-treatment-a-16-year-study-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes In Cannabis Potency And First-Time Admissions To Drug Treatment: A 16-Year Study In The Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tom P. Freeman, Peggy van der Pol, Wil Kuijpers, Jeroen Wisselink,<\/span><\/span><\/span>Ravi K. Das, Sander Rigter, Margriet van Laar, Paul Griffiths, Wendy Swift,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Raymond Niesink\u00a0and Michael T. Lynskey<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

ABSTRACT:<\/span><\/p>\n

Background <\/span><\/p>\n

The number of people entering specialist drug treatment for cannabis problems has increased considerably in recent years. The reasons for this are unclear, but rising cannabis potency could be a contributing factor. Methods Cannabis potency data were obtained from an ongoing monitoring programme in the Netherlands. We analysed concentrations of \u03b4 -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from the most popular variety of domestic herbal cannabis sold in each retail outlet (2000\u20132015). Mixed effects linear regression models examined time-dependent associations between THC and first-time cannabis admissions to specialist drug treatment. Candidate time lags were 0\u201310 years, based on normative European drug treatment data. <\/span><\/p>\n

Results <\/span><\/p>\n

THC increased from a mean (95% CI) of 8.62 (7.97\u20139.27) to 20.38 (19.09\u201321.67) from 2000 to 2004 and then decreased to 15.31 (14.24\u201316.38) in 2015. First-time cannabis admissions (per 100 000 inhabitants) rose from 7.08 to 26.36 from 2000 to 2010, and then decreased to 19.82 in 2015. THC was positively associated with treatment entry at lags of 0\u20139 years, with the strongest association at 5 years, b = 0.370 (0.317\u20130.424), p < 0.0001. After adjusting for age, sex and non-cannabis drug treatment admissions, these positive associations were attenuated but remained statistically significant at lags of 5\u20137 years and were again strongest at 5 years, b = 0.082 (0.052\u20130.111), p < 0.0001. <\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/span><\/p>\n

In this 16-year observational study, we found positive time-dependent associations between changes in cannabis potency and first-time cannabis admissions to drug treatment. These associations are biologically plausible, but their strength after adjustment suggests that other factors are also important.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/span>https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/322830280_Changes_in_cannabis_potency_and_first-time_admissions_to_drug_treatment_A_16-year_study_in_the_Netherlands<\/span><\/a>\u00a0January 2018<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom P. Freeman, Peggy van der Pol, Wil Kuijpers, Jeroen Wisselink,Ravi K. Das, Sander Rigter, Margriet van Laar, Paul Griffiths, Wendy Swift,Raymond Niesink\u00a0and Michael T. Lynskey ABSTRACT: Background The number of people entering specialist drug treatment for cannabis problems has increased considerably in recent years. The reasons for this are unclear, but rising cannabis potency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-treatment-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}