“Patients reported a clinically significant reduction of depression severity,” authors concluded.
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Cannabis was associated with fewer than one percent of all substance use-related cardiovascular deaths, investigators determined.
Patients presenting with severe baseline anxiety were most likely to experience a clinically significant improvement in anxiety symptoms at 12 months.
Just under half (48 percent) of respondents acknowledged having experience with cannabis.
“This study suggests that lifetime exposure to cannabis has few persistent effects on mental health and other psychosocial outcomes,” researchers reported.
Chronic pain patients in the survey reported “greater satisfaction” with cannabis and said that it was “more effective” than their prior therapies.
Previous studies have demonstrated that the co-administration of cannabinoids augments the pain-relieving effects of opioids, even when administered at subtherapeutic doses.
Forty-seven percent of respondents reported having authorized cannabis-based therapies to their pediatric patients.