Should Physicians Recommend Replacing Opioids With Cannabis?

JAMA. 2019 Feb 19;321(7):639-640. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.0077.

Authors

Keith Humphreys^{1

2}, Richard Saitz^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center.
² Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
³ Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, and Grayken Center for Addiction, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Associate Editor.

PMID: 30707218
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.0077

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use*
Buprenorphine / therapeutic use
Chronic Pain / drug therapy*
Evidence-Based Medicine
Government Regulation
Humans
Legislation, Drug
Medical Marijuana / adverse effects
Medical Marijuana / therapeutic use*
Methadone / therapeutic use
Opioid-Related Disorders / drug therapy*
United States

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid
Medical Marijuana
Buprenorphine
Methadone