Comments on: Khat use appears to exacerbate mental illness http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/125 Ethiopian News and Opinion Journal Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:46:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Debebe Regassa http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/125/comment-page-1#comment-70 Debebe Regassa Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:43:32 +0000 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/?p=125#comment-70 the impact of khat is clearly visible in the community of current Ethiopia.. there u prove it is a real threat to development in all aspects.. keep up the good work the impact of khat is clearly visible in the community of current Ethiopia.. there u prove it is a real threat to development in all aspects.. keep up the good work

]]> By: Ron River http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/125/comment-page-1#comment-69 Ron River Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:58:32 +0000 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/?p=125#comment-69 Dictatorship, displacements, refugeeism, malnutrition, lack of clean water, family breakups, violence and chaos, insecurity of life and limbs, speedy social changes, etc. exacerbate mental illness and hoplessness. How can the Khat researcher design his/her research and excercise control over the causal(independent) variables mentioned above and come up with a single cause, that is to say, Khat, as a cause of mental illness? That is absolutely imposible. Here, we might have a serious or complete lack of research vailidity and reliability, in which case we may only have just a simple piece of sweat fashionable propaganda narration, rather than science of a sort. Who in the world can tell us that the Somali people or any group consuming Khat were the most mentally ill in the owrld, historically speaking? On the contrary, I think that they were and still are one of the most dynamic, clever and mentally fit community of people, regardless of the disproprtional worldly troubles as well as Khat consuming culture. Dictatorship, displacements, refugeeism, malnutrition, lack of clean water, family breakups, violence and chaos, insecurity of life and limbs, speedy social changes, etc. exacerbate mental illness and hoplessness. How can the Khat researcher design his/her research and excercise control over the causal(independent) variables mentioned above and come up with a single cause, that is to say, Khat, as a cause of mental illness? That is absolutely imposible.

Here, we might have a serious or complete lack of research vailidity and reliability, in which case we may only have just a simple piece of sweat fashionable propaganda narration, rather than science of a sort.

Who in the world can tell us that the Somali people or any group consuming Khat were the most mentally ill in the owrld, historically speaking? On the contrary, I think that they were and still are one of the most dynamic, clever and mentally fit community of people, regardless of the disproprtional worldly troubles as well as Khat consuming culture.

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