United States: As reported by the HealthDay, These particular findings underscore the importance of developing and implementing the strategies and also to monitor the screen and the intervene with the individuals at the risk for problematic and at the cost of cannabis use and concluded the research team which is already led by Dr. Kevin yang and who is also a psychiatric resident with the university of California SanDiego.
‘To do this, workplace prevention programs including awareness, early detection and treatment must be developed and implemented,’ the team said in the paper aired in the current and we can say current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
AIn the case of the study, the data were collected from participants within the National Survey on Drug Use in 2021 and 2022, about 45,700 participants.
The survey revealed that among the employed adults – where 50.5 per cent were found to be working full time -, 15.7 per cent reported that they had used weed in the last one month and 6.9 per cent had signs of cannabis use disorder.
According to the findings, people who used weed in the past month were more likely to skip work.
People who reported previous use of psychoactive substances one or two times a month were 57% more likely to neglect going to work than non-users; users reporting number of days 20- 30 were 83% more likely to take a cavalier attitude towards work, according to the researchers.
People also who used weed were likely to get out of work or either contract an injury or fall sick.
In addition, the effect of cannabis use disorder on a person’s probability of skipping work was proportional to the level of the disorder, according to the study.
Employees with the highest ratings of CUD were 2. Seven point eight as likely to miss work as people who never use weed.
, individuals with moderate CUD were 2 times more likely to miss work than the rest and those with mild use disorder were 60% percentage point more likely to be absent from work.
Still, marijuana can reduce motivation and other brain functions, which could explain why people getting high are more likely to sleep in, the scholars explained.
Concerning absenteeism from work, there are regular clichés that cannabis makes people ‘lazy’ and there are studies indicating that the use of cannabis may result in decreased motivation and brain alterations. Perhaps this may partly explain why cannabis users and those with CUD are likely to be jobless or more likely to skip job.
Consequences of cannabis use also have been associated with the factors that lead to a rise in instances of truancy such as anxiety, panic attacks, depression, sleep disorders, respiratory complications and traffic accidents as pointed out by the researchers.