“One thing we all know we can connect on”: A qualitative study of cannabis use and the social dynamics of young adults with first episode psychosis
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Abstract
Background: Cannabis consumption is common among young adults with First Episode Psychosis (FEP). Mental health professionals tend to discourage its use due to concerns around symptom exacerbation and negative social outcomes. However, young adults report using cannabis for social and relational enhancement purposes. This study investigates the social aspects of cannabis use in service users with FEP who do not wish to abstain, to inform engagement and harm reduction efforts.Method: A qualitative design and thematic analysis were utilized to examine the views of young adults with FEP (n = 15) towards the connections between peer groups and cannabis consumption.Results: Participants were 20–30 years old and reported that peers were pivotal during early cannabis use, consumption facilitated community among users, and many adopted a socially informed “stoner identity”. Cannabis had a positive effect on peer relationships and it was important to friendships, though some noted a shift from social to solitary use.Discussion: Clinicians should enquire about the links between cannabis consumption, friendships, community, and identity while supporting young adults in navigating social pressures that maintain use. Alternative activities that provide enjoyment, acceptance, commonality, confidence, and relaxation must be explored. Treatment should support young adults towards meaningful identity formation.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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