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Dr. Terry Goldberg sounded some notes of caution regarding a study that questions whether certain cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes drugs could help manage mental illnesses like schizophrenia.

Many adults with serious mental illness continue to be untreated, while a substantial percentage of mental health services are provided to those in lower levels of distress, writes Dr. Mark Olfson.

Dr. Ziva Cooper, who is doing research with CBD, says “based on animal studies, there seems to be a lot of promise for a number of disease states,” including its potential effects on inflammation.

“Further efforts to examine heterogeneity of treatment response of antipsychotic medication by age are needed,” Dr. T. Scott Stroup and colleagues wrote.