Only by a small portion of the psychiatric community. The vast majority believe that the causation runs the opposite direction, that it's self-medication. This has been discussed for years for just about every serious mental illness, in fact. There's no real consensus either way, but most mental health professionals I know agree with this.
(I grew up in a house of mental health professionals, so I've had no dearth of opinions on the matter, to say the least.)
(I grew up in a house of mental health professionals, so I've had no dearth of opinions on the matter, to say the least.)