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Nobody really understands the mechanism of action in schizophrenia, but it isn't caused by smoking weed or dropping acid. Those activities merely coincide with the age of onset.
Interestingly, a lot of parents cling to the hope that their kid is wacky because of drug use rather than schizophrenia. You can get over using drugs.
Very often prodromal schizophrenics (what we used to call schizophreniform disorder when we suspected a first break, but I have't seen that term used in years even though it's still listed in the big book o' crazy) do turn to drug use as a means of treating or avoiding their symptoms.
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