Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Moderate the Relationship Between Chronic Pain and Adverse Cannabis Outcomes: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Increasingly, cannabis is being prescribed/used to help manage posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) or chronic pain, as cannabis has been argued to be beneficial for both types of symptoms. However, the evidence on efficacy is conflicting with evidence of risks mounting, leading some to caution against the use of cannabis for the management of PTSS and/or chronic pain. We examined the main and interactive effects of PTSS and chronic pain interference on adverse cannabis outcomes (a composite of cannabis use levels and cannabis use disorder, CUD, symptoms). We hypothesized that chronic pain interference and PTSS would each significantly predict adverse cannabis outcomes, and that chronic pain interference effects on adverse cannabis outcomes would be strongest among those

SUBMITTER: DeGrace S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11831894 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature