{"id":3863,"date":"2024-01-18T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T00:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cannabis-for-opioid-addiction-research-says-no-again\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:00:27","slug":"cannabis-for-opioid-addiction-research-says-no-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cannabis-for-opioid-addiction-research-says-no-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis for Opioid Addiction? Research says NO, Again!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another study confirms that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00952990.2023.2287406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cannabis is not an effective treatment for opioid addiction<\/a>, this time from Brazil\u2019s University of Ribeir\u00e3o Preto, Yale University et al. Their meta review covered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-01-cannabis-effect-treatment-opioid-addiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8,367 people given drugs to treat opioid addiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conclusion:<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;There was no significant association between cannabis use and non-medical opioid use among patients receiving pharmacotherapies for OUD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/marijuana-cannabis-use-and-risk-of-prescription-opioid-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marijuana&nbsp;Cannabis&nbsp;Use&nbsp;and&nbsp;Risk of Prescription&nbsp;Opioid&nbsp;Use<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/weeding-out-the-truth-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-on-the-transition-from-cannabis-use-to-opioid-use-and-opioid-use-disorders-abuse-or-dependence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weeding out the truth: a systematic review&nbsp;and&nbsp;meta-analysis on the transition from&nbsp;cannabis&nbsp;use to&nbsp;opioid&nbsp;use&nbsp;and&nbsp;opioid&nbsp;use disorders, abuse or dependence<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cannabis-use-appears-to-encourage-not-replace-non-medical-opioid-use\/\">Cannabis&nbsp;use appears to encourage, not replace, non-medical&nbsp;opioid&nbsp;use<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cannabis-use-does-not-reduce-long-term-heroin-use-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannabis&nbsp;use does not reduce long-term heroin use, study finds<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another study confirms that&nbsp;cannabis is not an effective treatment for opioid addiction, this time from Brazil\u2019s University of Ribeir\u00e3o Preto, Yale University et al. Their meta review covered&nbsp;8,367 people given drugs to treat opioid addiction. Conclusion:&nbsp;There was no significant association between cannabis use and non-medical opioid use among patients receiving pharmacotherapies for OUD See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-as-medicine","tag-cannabis-as-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}