The New Mexico Daily Lobo investigates medical marijuana’s potential to help battle opioid use and addiction.
UNM study suggests medical marijuana could decrease prescription opiate abuse
UNM professors Jacob Vigil and Sara Stith, along with pain specialist Dr. Anthony Reeve, conducted an 18-month study on how enrollment in the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program has affected prescription opioid use in patients with chronic pain.
Their research found a 31 percent reduction in opioid use after 18 months in the medical cannabis patients and a slight increase in opioid use in the control group.