This guideline supports using a stepped and integrated care approach, in which treatment intensity is continually adjusted to accommodate individual patient needs and circumstances over time.
งานวิจัยนี้ชี้ให้เห็นว่าการเข้าถึงกัญชาทางการแพทย์ทำให้สามารถใช้สารทดแทน opioids สำหรับกัญชาได้
สมัครสมาชิก แจ้งข่าว IDPC ทุกเดือน เพื่อรับข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับประเด็นที่เกี่ยวข้องกับนโยบายยาเสพติด
กรุณาดูด้านล่างสำหรับข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมเป็นภาษาอังกฤษ
By David Powell, Rosalie Liccardo Paccula and Mireille Jacobson
Recent work finds that medical marijuana laws reduce the daily doses filled for opioid analgesics among Medicare Part-D and Medicaid enrollees, as well as population-wide opioid overdose deaths. We replicate the result for opioid overdose deaths and explore the potential mechanism. The key feature of a medical marijuana law that facilitates a reduction in overdose death rates is a relatively liberal allowance for dispensaries. As states have become more stringent in their regulation of dispensaries, the protective value generally has fallen. These findings suggest that broader access to medical marijuana facilitates substitution of marijuana for powerful and addictive opioids.
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The International Peace Institute takes stock of the existing research on drug metrics to date and offers avenues to better adapt these to the SDGs agenda.
Maziyar Ghiabi, guest editor of the special issue explains the 3 main purposes of this issue: complementarity, questions of methods and discipline, and finally to challenge the established assumptions about the place of drugs in the social sciences.
Both the criminalization of drug use, and high stigma and discrimination faced by PWUD, negatively affect access to health services for this population.
The FORECAST study conducted by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recommends support for drug
checking as a public health approach to the fentanyl crisis.
