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UC Berkeley and marijuana tech company see if pot fights painkiller abuse

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 09/22/2016 - 08:45

States with medical marijuana laws have a quarter less painkiller overdose deaths, and less painkiller prescriptions as well.

Now, leading research institution UC Berkeley, and a cannabis technology company HelloMD, hope to learn more about why.

UC Berkeley and HelloMD announced this week a study of how cannabis affects opioid use. The team will survey HelloMD’s patient database of around 100,000 regarding cannabis and how it affects patients’ use of opioids.

Opioids are a deadly class of painkillers that have ended the lives of 165,000 Americans from 1999 to 2014, the CDC reports. Nearly 20,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2014 alone — or roughly 19 people per day. Recently, entertainer Prince died of an overdose of the opioid Fentanyl, officials reported. The makers of Fentanyl donated $500,000 to keep marijuana illegal in Arizona, state elections data shows.

The Cal/HelloMD study promises to build on research showing that...

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