[Cannabis and its association with psychosis: What do we know?] / Cannabis y su asociación con psicosis: qué sabemos?

Psychoses are a group of diseases that cause enormous health and emotional burden for the patient and their families. In recent decades, the need for early intervention to improve their prognosis has been highlighted. It has long been postulated that cannabis use is a risk factor added to other factors such as genetics and developmental abnormalities. For this reason, and in the light of a growing movement for legalization of its use, it is vitally important to have reliable information to understand the details of the relationship between cannabis abuse and the development of psychosis. The purpose of this paper is to review the available information on the subject. Beyond some methodological criticisms, epidemiological fndings provide strong evidence that cannabis use may increase the risk of psychotic disorders, a public health message that should be spread.

[Medical comorbidity in psychiatric disorders]. / Comorbilidades médicas en los trastornos psiquiátricos.

Understand that in addition to the problems inherent to mental conditions the people suffer associated medical conditions that further complicate their condition and endanger its vitality is paramount. Of course this requires fundamental premise construct understanding of mental health within the medical model of care. As mentioned above we make the following literature review focusing on understanding the interaction between depression and cardiovascular disease mainly and reviewing other comorbidities and their impact on our patients. We show also that several factors contribute to poor physical health of people with psychiatric disorders including different individual choices in lifestyle determined by its pathologies and on the other hand a marked disparity in access, utilization and health care provision.