Marijuana could help treat drug addiction, mental health, study suggests
Medical marijuana (inventory picture). Credit score: © goodmanphoto / Fotolia Utilizing marijuana may assist some alcoholics and folks hooked on opioids kick their habits, a UBC examine has discovered. "Analysis suggests that individuals could also be utilizing hashish as an exit drug to cut back use of drugs which can be doubtlessly extra dangerous, resembling opioid ache remedy," mentioned the examine's lead investigator Zach Walsh, affiliate professor of psychology at UBC's Okanagan campus. This complete assessment of analysis on medical hashish use and psychological well being additionally discovered some proof that hashish might assist with signs of melancholy, PTSD and social anxiousness. Nevertheless, the assessment concluded that hashish use may not be really useful for circumstances resembling bipolar dysfunction and psychosis. "In reviewing the restricted proof on medical hashish, it seems that sufferers ...