Sentences with phrase «fewer opioid overdose»

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.

For example, she said, research has tied medical marijuana laws to fewer opioid overdose deaths.

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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.

In the 13 states that passed laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010, 25 percent fewer people die from opioid overdoses annually.

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.

Janda said a heroin vaccine has many advantages over drug substitution therapies — fewer side effects, no dependence on other opioids, lower overdose risk — but the biggest advantage may be the cost.