A new study shows that children who are exposed to bullying during childhood are at increased risk of psychiatric disorders in adulthood.
Interventions for teenagers at risk of emotional and behavioural problems can significantly reduce their drinking behaviour, and that of their schoolmates.
This is the result from a new randomised controlled trial published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Cannabis use appears to be associated with an earlier onset of psychotic illness, according to a meta-analysis of previously published studies posted online that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.