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Síndrome amotivacional en consumidores crónicos de marihuana. Una revisión narrativa para la aproximación al concepto
Amotivational syndrome in chronic marijuana users. A narrative review to approach the concept

Introducción: Durante los últimos sesenta años se ha construido evidencia sobre los efectos adversos relacionados con el consumo crónico de cannabis. Los problemas de memoria y concentración, el riesgo de esquizofrenia en sujetos predispuestos y el síndrome amotivacional han sido referenciados. Co...

Road traffic injuries and substance use among emergency department patients in the Dominican Republic and Peru

ABSTRACT Objective. To report demographic and substance use characteristics and risk of road traffic injury (RTI) from alcohol use, cannabis use, and combined use in a sample of emergency department patients from two countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Methods. A cross-sectional study in whic...

Introducing the evidence-based population health tool of the Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines to Brazil

Cannabis is the most commonly used illegal drug, and is associated with well-documented adverse health outcomes, both acute and chronic. Cannabis use prevalence in Brazil is lower than in high-use regions in the Americas (e.g., North America), but concentrated among young people. Frameworks for cannabis ...

Arteriopatía periférica asociada a marihuana
Marijuana-associated peripheral arteriopathy

Medicina (B.Aires); 79 (2), 2019
La arteriopatía por marihuana debe ser considerada en pacientes jóvenes con arteriopatía periférica sin factores de riesgo para ateroesclerosis. Se ha descrito por primera vez en 1960 y existen más de 100 casos en la literatura. Si bien se tiende a considerar como una entidad independiente de la tro...

Síndrome de hiperémesis por cannabinoides: caso clínico
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome: clinical case

Background. The cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) was first described in 2004. It is considered as a functional gastrointestinal syndrome characterized by the presence of nausea, severe and cyclic morning vomiting, epigastric abdominal pain, hot water bathing for symptom reli...