11 Year Study Finds Opioid Deaths Down In Medical #Marijuana States

In an article entitled “Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Analgesic Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1999-2010” published August 25, 2014 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researcher and primary author, Dr. Marcus A. Bachhuber, MD, with the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 423 Guardian Dr, 1303-A Blockley Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (marcus.bachhuber@gmail.com), and others concluded that, “The present study provides evidence that medical cannabis laws are associated with reductions in opioid analgesic overdose mortality on a population level.”

Authors, and their affiliations are:

Marcus A. Bachhuber, MD^1,2,3;

Brendan Saloner, PhD^3,4;

Chinazo O. Cunningham, MD, MS⁵;

Colleen L. Barry, PhD, MPP^3,6

• ¹Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• ²Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• ³Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• ⁴Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• ⁵Division of General Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
• ⁶Department of Health Policy and Management, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

For more information, see:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1898878