Sentences with phrase «fewer opioid deaths»
«Study questions link between medical marijuana and fewer opioid deaths: Association appears to be changing as medical marijuana laws and opioid epidemic change.»
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For example, she said, research has tied medical marijuana laws to fewer opioid overdose deaths.
Drug overdose deaths — originally from prescription opioids but increasingly now from heroin and fentanyl — have emerged as an increasingly grave social issue, steadily worsening over the past few years even as the economy improves.
Some of the consequences of increased prescribing of opioids over the last few decades have been increases in the use of heroin; overdose deaths; and cases of HIV, hepatitis C, and other injection - related harms.
Published in 2014, the study revealed an intriguing trend: between 1999 and 2010, states that permitted medical marijuana had an average of almost 25 percent fewer opioid overdose deaths each year than states where cannabis remained illegal.