But the lives of vulnerable people may be put at risk when science is distorted for corporate or ideological ends. As noted, several USstates responded to the much-hypedoriginal study of cannabis and opioid overdosesby authorizing the use of medical cannabis to treat heroin-addicted individuals. Advice that opioid users should use medical cannabis toreplace opioid agonist therapies (e.g., methadone, buprenorphine) poses significant risk because abrupt cessation of these medications dramatically increases the risks of an overdose death if users return to opioid use
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[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.14801
[2] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/research
[3] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/medical-0
[4] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/risks
[5] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/opioid