USC study finds cannabis can help manage withdrawal symptoms, as well as cravings and anxiety after withdrawal

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/15659995

New research from the University of Southern California indicates cannabis may help individuals reduce or quit opioid use. Lead author Sid Ganesh, a PhD student at USC’s medical school, interviewed 30 opioid and cannabis users in Los Angeles. Participants, receiving services from a methadone clinic and syringe exchange, found cannabis useful for managing opioid use due to easier access. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, highlights cannabis’s role in easing withdrawal symptoms and cravings.

  • cashmaggot@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I mean, if you believe in trading tit for tat. Because I for sure have met people who are heroin addicts who just swapped to cigarettes and weed and smoke it about once ever 20 minutes…forever. So yeah. I mean, if you think that’s the way to go. You know, or people could like…get on maintenance if they have a opiate addiction they can’t kick. Which I wish was more readily available for people.

      • cashmaggot@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Depends on the person, their surroundings, their resources, and their DNA (as far as I hear it). The main point is hands down if you’re pregnant and you want to do right by your kid tie your fucking hands behind your back if you have to. Go to a shelter in a different state. Do whatever you have to do to make sure that if you’re bringing said child to term - you don’t fuck their life up because you can’t stop being a numb-nut. Because it’s fucking brutally unfair what people do to others when they can’t stop being some combination of an addict/in a space of learned helplessness (seeing all things as bleak and inescapable)/selfish.

        I mean have you seen folks with FAS? Cause some of them never get a chance to even be anything but broken for all their living days, and that’s fucking miserable. And yeah, I know you can die from not drinking as I have a friend who almost did. So at the end of the day, if she were to get pregnant - I’d more than likely advise her just terminating the pregnancy. But all together, I just think addiction is shit. And I actually absolutely fucking hate it, and I think it’s crazy that people are so aloof about weed. Because I’ve met some really shitty potheads. Who neglect and abuse their families to get high. But as I always say, I am sure I have met some lovely ones too. They just are operating in a way that I don’t know.

        p.s. - How long/much they’ve used. But I have also seen people who used for 20-30 years go stone sober one day and stay that way.

        *** Ah shit, thought this was a different thread - but fuck all I’ll leave this here. I don’t think you can trade one addiction for another and I personally think any addict in an active addiction (and I’m pretty extreme because I even include cigarettes into the mix) are on a slippery slope. Because I feel like you’re just activating those neural pathways over and over and over. But also in living with and loving multiple addicts over my lifetime I think some people just need an addiction. And cannot live without one, so they choose the “lesser of two evils” so to speak.

        *Also I am aware of different strokes for different folks. Hence why this is all my own opinion and I am not forcing it on anyone. I am just expressing myself, and as an passionate individual I express myself loudly.