Analysis, Health and Fitness

Study: Patients Report Substituting Cannabis For Opioids, Other Pain Medications

Berkeley, CA–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2017.  Pain patients report successfully substituting cannabis for opioids and other analgesics, according to data published online in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research.

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Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Kent State University in Ohio assessed survey data from a cohort of 2,897 self-identified medical cannabis patients.

Among those who acknowledged having used opioid-based pain medication within the past six months, 97 percent agreed that they were able to decrease…

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