Recreational and Medical Cannabis Legalization and Opioid Prescriptions and Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While some have argued that cannabis legalization has helped to reduce opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the US, evidence has been mixed. Moreover, existing studies did not account for biases that could arise when policy effects vary over time or across states or when multiple policies are assessed at the same time, as in the case of recreational and medical cannabis legalization.

Objective

To quantify changes in opioid prescriptions and opioid overdose deaths associated with recreational and medical cannabis legalization in the US.

Design, setting, and participants

This quasiexperimental, generalized difference-in-differences analysis used annual state-level data between January 2006 and December 2020 to compare states that legalized recreational o

SUBMITTER: Nguyen HV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10799258 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature