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<font size="4"><font color="ffffff"><b>Legal Marijuana States Have Lower Opioid Use</b></font></font>
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<font color="000000"><b>Posted by CN Staff on April 02, 2018 at 08:59:55 PT</b></font>
<font size="2"><b>By Tom Angell</b></font>
Source: Forbes
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<font color="000000">USA -- Letting people legally access marijuana appears to reduce reliance on addictive opioids, two new studies published by the American Medical Association find.</font>
<font color="000000">"Medical cannabis laws are associated with significant reductions in opioid prescribing in the Medicare Part D population," concludes one paper from researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens. "This finding was particularly strong in states that permit dispensaries, and for reductions in hydrocodone and morphine prescriptions."</font>
<font color="000000">The second study, from scientists at the University of Kentucky and Emory University, noted that "marijuana is one of the potential nonopioid alternatives that can relieve pain at a relatively lower risk of addiction and virtually no risk of overdose." It found that laws allowing medical cannabis or recreational marijuana "have the potential to lower opioid prescribing for Medicaid enrollees, a high-risk population for chronic pain, opioid use disorder, and opioid overdose."....</font>
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<font color="000000"><b>Posted by CN Staff on April 02, 2018 at 08:59:55 PT</b></font>
<font size="2"><b>By Tom Angell</b></font>
Source: Forbes
<font color="000000">USA -- Letting people legally access marijuana appears to reduce reliance on addictive opioids, two new studies published by the American Medical Association find.</font><font color="000000">"Medical cannabis laws are associated with significant reductions in opioid prescribing in the Medicare Part D population," concludes one paper from researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens. "This finding was particularly strong in states that permit dispensaries, and for reductions in hydrocodone and morphine prescriptions."</font>
<font color="000000">The second study, from scientists at the University of Kentucky and Emory University, noted that "marijuana is one of the potential nonopioid alternatives that can relieve pain at a relatively lower risk of addiction and virtually no risk of overdose." It found that laws allowing medical cannabis or recreational marijuana "have the potential to lower opioid prescribing for Medicaid enrollees, a high-risk population for chronic pain, opioid use disorder, and opioid overdose."....</font>
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