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Many older adults use cannabis to alleviate pain, increase sleep quality, and mitigate symptoms of anxiety and/or depression. Yet few studies assess co-occurring effects of cannabis use that may be more salient to older adults. We recruited 234 participants (average age 70.46 (sd=5.83) who ...
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At its worst, the consequences of mixing alcohol and medicines can be fatal. Combining a medicine that acts on the brain with alcohol may make driving a car or operatingheavy machinerydifficult and lead to a serious accident. Who is at most risk? The effects of mixing alcohol and medicine a...
What would help the most at this point is to run a large study that followed subjects over time to understand the connections between cannabis consumption andheart health. That same study could also winnow out any other health effects—good or bad—from recreational use. ...
I recentlywrote about a studythat localized the receptors underlying the arousing effects of caffeine. (A2a receptors, in cells located in the shell of the nucleus accumbens). It’s only natural then to wonder what effect chronic caffeine intake might have on these receptors (and elsehwere in...
Vermont has relatively recently allowed the sale of cannabis for recreational use and new dispensaries have been popping up all over as a result. We happened to be near one last weekend so we stopped in. It was nice and the staff were very friendly, which was good because their menu was ...
This study was conducted to better understand the psychological and roadway correlates of aggressive driving. The study had two phases: In Phase One, surve... KA Harder,TA Kinney,JR Bloomfield 被引量: 10发表: 2008年 Cannabis and Alcohol Compares past, present and possible future effects and me...
Health and safety will be the driving force at first in the UK. Take doctors: a recent report in the Lancet revealed that 37% of male junior doctors were using cannabis and 14% cocaine, amphetamines, barbiturates, LSD, ecstasy, magic mushrooms or other substances. The figure for women was...
But, oddly enough, these carcinogens, which independant of cannabis can be really dangerous, don't tend to be as harmful in marijuana. There's a study from Johns Hopkins (mentioned here). In it they say that marijuana does not cause cancer in the same degree that tobacco and alcohol (!