{"id":180792,"date":"2024-01-18T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/medical-marijuanas-role-in-opioid-crisis-under-potential-scrutiny-in-latest-study"},"modified":"2024-01-18T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:28:57","slug":"medical-marijuanas-role-in-opioid-crisis-under-potential-scrutiny-in-latest-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/medical-marijuanas-role-in-opioid-crisis-under-potential-scrutiny-in-latest-study","title":{"rendered":"Medical Marijuana\u2019s Role in Opioid Crisis Under Potential Scrutiny in Latest Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Labroots recently explored how a November 2023 study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry<\/em> found that cannabis does not mitigate long-term opioid addiction<\/a>. Now, a more recent study<\/a> published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse<\/em> could either support or refute these findings as a team of international researchers examined the potential for cannabis to be used as appropriate substitute<\/a> for weaning patients away from opioid use for non-medical reasons. This study holds the potential to help medical practitioners, patients, and the public better understand the link between medical cannabis and opioid addiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cClarifying how cannabis and opioids interact is crucial if we are to equip healthcare professionals to provide evidence-based addiction treatment, prevent overdose deaths and save lives,\u201d said Gabriel Costa, who is a researcher at the University of Ribeir\u00e3o Preto in Brazil and lead author of the study.<\/p>\n

For the study, the researchers combined findings from a meta-analysis and modeling to ascertain the risk of cannabis use and non-medical opioid use for patients suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) and receiving appropriate treatment, as well. The meta-analysis involved a myriad of databases between March 1 and April 5, 2023, with a total of 10 studies being selected for further investigation for the final study, which totaled 8,367 participants, of which 62 percent were men and 38 percent were women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Labroots recently explored how a November 2023 study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry found that cannabis does not mitigate long-term opioid addiction. Now, a more recent study published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse could either support or refute these findings as a team of international researchers examined the potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}