Smoking Cannabis is Especially Dangerous for Youth Diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivty Disorer (ADHD)
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Roger W Apple1*, Donald E Greydanus1 and Joav Merrick2-6 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
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