Pot legalization tied to drop in opioid prescribing rates
April 2, 2018|Family Medicine
FROM JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE
However, legal marijuana alone won’t solve the opioid epidemic, they cautioned.
“As with other policies evaluated in the previous literature, marijuana liberalization is but one potential aspect of a comprehensive package to tackle the epidemic,” they said in the article.
None of the study authors reported conflicts of interest.
SOURCES: Bradford AC et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Apr 2. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.0266; Wen H, Hockenberry JM. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Apr 2. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.1007.
