There's a reason I tried to avoid mentioning cause and effect, although you can easily find scientific literature that assumes a correlation between drug use and depression means the drug use caused the depression (often with an undertone of "They're getting their just punishment for using illegal and/or immoral substances".
T probably should have been more specific in my original question - I was wondering if there were any kind of studies that actually showed that the drug use potentially caused the depression.
I do find it very interesting that the clinical interpretaion is one of causation, while most people who responded to the question (some of whom I hazard may have done drugs or known people who do drugs) immediately identified self-medication,
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:28 am (UTC)T probably should have been more specific in my original question - I was wondering if there were any kind of studies that actually showed that the drug use potentially caused the depression.
I do find it very interesting that the clinical interpretaion is one of causation, while most people who responded to the question (some of whom I hazard may have done drugs or known people who do drugs) immediately identified self-medication,