Medical and non-medical cannabis use and risk of prescription opioid use disorder: Findings from propensity score matching.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and aims

Previous research suggested that cannabis use was associated with increased risks of prescription opioid misuse and use disorder. This study examined whether these associations differed by cannabis use purpose.

Design and methods

This is a secondary analysis of cross-sectional surveys with propensity score matching. Medical cannabis users (N = 1295), cannabis dual users with both medical and non-medical purposes (N = 707) and non-medical cannabis users (N = 18 666) were compared with cannabis non-users (N = 57 196) in the pooled 2013-2016 US nationally representative National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Propensity score models were applied to match cannabis non-users to cannabis users with different purposes with respect to potential confounders in i

SUBMITTER: Liang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774839 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature