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For many people, drug and alcohol problems begin as self-medication for other mental health symptoms. Half of people with a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa, fragmented and hard-to-access mental health care means that these conditions and addiction often go untreated.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is distressing to see a continuing negative impact of drug overdose on the life expectancy of Americans. These deaths often occur in young adults and therefore represent a tragically high number of years of life lost and devastating impact on individuals, families, and communities, we have the science and the tools available to help us reverse this trend and reduce the number of overdose deaths in this country. But these tools are not being used effectively.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This knowledge can be used to inform strategies for implementing legalization while minimizing the potential harms.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
People often want to say that cannabis is either all good or all bad, but in biology, nothing is black and white -- there is a lot of gray.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Harm reduction can be life saving for individuals, for example, that are not ready to receive medications or treatment but are at a very high risk of dying.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Some people lost their jobs, some people lost their support systems. Patients that were, for example, in recovery have resorted to drug taking because of stress.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This has been an incredibly uncertain and stressful time for many people and we are seeing an increase in drug consumption, difficulty in accessing life-saving treatments for substance use disorders, and a tragic rise in overdose deaths.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When you use marijuana regularly, your risk of becoming addicted is close to 50 percent, particularly if you're a young person.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You should be able to see it with your eyes, without having to be an expert.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We cannot be guided by wishful thinking. We need objective data.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There have been a couple of papers that have reported actually some beneficial effects of marijuana smoking and the use of other drugs, but there also was one other paper that reported the opposite.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We have started to explore the extent to which interventions that can decrease the amount of drug consumed can have benefits to the individual, it would be valuable to decrease the amount of drug consumed.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
One of the things is, we don't have any evidence-based medication that has proven to be efficacious for the treatment of cocaine addiction, so we currently have no medicine to intervene, and it can be a very severe addiction and actually quite dangerous.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
This particular study is a step forward in that we can now state with a higher degree of confidence that cannabis use is associated with an increased prevalence and incidence of substance use disorders but less likely to be linked with any mood disorder or anxiety disorder.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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