{"id":2867,"date":"2014-08-25T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2014-08-26T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:38:12","slug":"marijuana-legalization-linked-to-lower-overdose-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/marijuana-legalization-linked-to-lower-overdose-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana legalization linked to lower overdose rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">U.S. states that implemented medical marijuana laws appear to have lower overdose death rates from prescription painkillers and drugs such as heroin, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors examined ten states (Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont) which enacted medical cannabis laws between 1999 and 2010 and compared them to other states. They estimate that these laws were linked to about 1,729 fewer deaths from drug overdose in 2010. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While they cannot fully explain this phenomenon, they say that marijuana and its pain-reducing effects could reduce the need of some people to use painkillers, thus reducing overdose rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1898878\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine<\/em><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 25, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marcus A. Bachhuber, Center for Health, Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. states that implemented medical marijuana laws appear to have lower overdose death rates from prescription painkillers and drugs such as heroin, a new study shows. The authors examined ten states (Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont) which enacted medical cannabis laws between 1999 and 2010 and compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2147,51,2149,53,2148,476],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-drug-use","tag-health","tag-marijuana","tag-medicine","tag-overdose","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Kf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}