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by stevedekorte 1609 days ago
IIRC, there's also a very high correlation between schizophrenia and early substance abuse/overuse in general (such as high alcohol/caffeine use). Are these substances causal too?
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It is, but also there is a thing called 'self-medication'*.

As we know, global warming has a positive corellation with a decline of a pirate activity, but nobody yet discovered the cause.

* as a person who at least read some things on it - it should be really described as 'attempts at s.m.' but here we are

there is casual evidence that alcohol and caffeine increase hospitalisations for schizos. With marihuana its a harder riddle, what is a cause of another, I guess you can ask the same about other substances and origin