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Many Using Cannabis for Pain Take Opioids,

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By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- People using cannabis for pain may still be
taking opioid painkillers, a new study suggests.

Researchers looked at cannabis and nonprescription opioid use among 211 individuals in the New York
City area. Over 90 days, the investigators found that opioid use was at least as high when cannabis was
used as when it wasn't, regardless of participants' pain levels.

"Our study is among the first to test opioid substitution directly, suggesting that cannabis seldom serves
as a substitute for nonmedical opioids among opioid-using adults, even among those who report
experiencing moderate or more severe pain," said researcher Deborah Hasin. She's a professor of
epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City.

"In other words, our study suggests that cannabis is not an effective way to limit nonmedical opioid
use," Hasin added in a news release from the Society for the Study of Addiction.

In 2017, more than 2 million Americans suffered from opioid addiction, and more than 70,000 died from
the painkillers, the researchers pointed out in background notes.

Opioid use -- including nonmedical use of prescription opioids, synthetic opioids and heroin -- is the
main cause of overdose deaths. How cannabis may change nonmedical opioid use is critical to
understanding how cannabis-based interventions can affect the opioid crisis, the researchers said.

The report was published Oct. 8 in the journal Addiction.

More information

For more on drug addiction, head to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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 My opinion about that news, I think cannabis can be part of adult people, to stop using opioids for
painkillers, yeah I know cannabis is not good for healthy, if you use it wrong, but cannabis can be a
reason for people stop using opioids, because opoids is really danger, opoids already kill 70.000 people
in America and 2 million suffer from opioids, maybe doctor can give recipe how and when you must use
cannabis, its to make people stop using opioids. In Canada cannabis is legal because people in there now
how to use it, and make cannabis really become big benefits for healthy in Canada, I think America
should do like Canada do, its make cannabis benefits for healthy in America.