People who start smoking cannabis to alleviate pain, anxiety or depression are at a higher risk of developing paranoia than those who use the drug recreationally, a study has found. The research analysed answers from 3,389 former and current cannabis users aged over 18, who had no clinical history of psychosis and had taken part in the Cannabis&Me survey. Published …
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It was a bit of a watered down victory for Tommy Fleetwood. The Southport born golfer grabbed his long-awaited first PGA Tour win on Sunday at the Tour Championship and was surrounded by friends and colleagues as the emotion came over him. However, his wife of eight years, Clare, was not there to celebrate the $10 million win. It was …
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A man consulted ChatGPT prior to changing his diet. Three months later, after consistently sticking with that dietary change, he ended up in the emergency department with concerning new psychiatric symptoms, including paranoia and hallucinations. It turned out that the 60-year-old had bromism, a syndrome brought about by chronic overexposure to the chemical compound bromide or its close cousin bromine. …
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Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in ‘Eddington’ Ari Aster and Darius Khondji/A24 hide caption toggle caption Ari Aster and Darius Khondji/A24 Films known as “period pieces” take viewers back to the Renaissance or Victorian England, for example. Are you ready for a period piece about the pandemic? Eddington takes its name from a fictional small town in New Mexico in …
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