Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Open Access

Commentary

Smoking Cannabis is Especially Dangerous for Youth Diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivty Disorer (ADHD)

Roger W Apple^1*, Donald E Greydanus¹ and Joav Merrick^2-6

¹Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

²National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem

³Office of the Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem

⁴Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel

⁵Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky School of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

⁶Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

Corresponding Author:

Apple RW, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine
1000 Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-1284, United States
E-mail: Roger.Apple@med.wmich.edu

Received Date: June 28, 2016; Accepted Date: July 09, 2016; Published Date: July 13, 2016

Citation: Apple RW, Greydanus DE, Merrick J (2016) Smoking Cannabis is Especially Dangerous for Youth Diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivty Disorer (ADHD). J Community Med Health Educ 6:451. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000451

Copyright: © 2016 Apple RW, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.