Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1996, California became the first US state to legalise marijuana use for medical purposes. Medical marijuana is now legal in 29 states. Opponents of medical marijuana argue that such laws increase recreational marijuana use among …
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More awareness, research needed on abuse risk of non-opioid painkiller
Rachel Vickers Smith, Ph.D., M.P.H. Credit: University of Louisville Amid the opioid epidemic, abuse of a different prescription painkiller has widely gone unnoticed. Gabapentin, a nerve pain medication and anticonvulsant sold under the brand name Neurontin and others, increasingly is …
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A new academic paper looks at the role of gender in cardiovascular health. Credit: University of Melbourne The role of gender has been largely neglected despite playing a critical role in cardiovascular health, University of Melbourne academics have highlighted in …
Read More »New guideline warns pain benefits of medical cannabis overstated
Mike Allan, director of evidence-based medicine at the University of Alberta, led efforts to create a guideline for prescribing medical cannabinoids in primary care. Credit: Ross Neitz A new medical guideline published today suggests Canada’s family physicians should take a …
Read More »Marijuana should be packaged, regulated following tobacco control best practices
Credit: University of California, San Francisco California already has the nation’s largest medical marijuana market, and this year is expected to have the world’s largest recreational market. With enormous potential to influence policy, the state should take an assertive approach …
Read More »Investigators highlight potential of exercise in addressing substance abuse in teens
Exercise has numerous, well-documented health benefits. Could it also play a role in preventing and reducing substance misuse and abuse in adolescents? This is the intriguing question that a team of investigators from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine …
Read More »NIH releases first dataset from unprecedented study of adolescent brain development
The logo of ABCD study. Credit: NIDA The National Institutes of Health today released to the scientific community an unparalleled dataset from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. To date, more than 7,500 youth and their families have been …
Read More »Hip-hop music influencing more African-Americans to try ‘Molly’
More rap artists are talking about molly, which is the powder or crystal form of ecstasy, and that’s having a big impact on Black listeners. Molly is a synthetic drug that acts as a stimulant and hallucinogenic. While research has …
Read More »New cannabis products highly potent, pose mental health risks
Schizophrenia and other psychiatric issues may be triggered by marijuana use, according to a research analysis in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. With states rapidly legalizing cannabis for medicinal and recreational use, physicians will be increasingly pressed to …
Read More »Marijuana’s 4/20 holiday tied to rise in fatal car crashes
Photo of Dr. John Staples, a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia. Credit: University of British Columbia Marijuana users’ self-proclaimed holiday is linked with a slight increase in fatal U.S. car crashes, an analysis of …
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