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Study finds CBD effective in treating heroin addiction
For their study, published Tuesday in the American Journal of Psychiatry, [Yasmin] Hurd and her colleagues looked at 42 adults who had a recent history of heroin use and were not using methadone or buprenorphine.
Recruited from social services groups, halfway houses and treatment centers, the participants had used heroin for an average of 13 years, and most had gone less than a month without using. They had to abstain from any heroin use for the entire trial period.
The participants were divided into three groups: one group given 800 milligrams of CBD, another 400 milligrams of CBD and another a placebo. All the participants were dosed once daily for three consecutive days and followed over the next two weeks.
During those two weeks, over the course of several sessions, the participants were shown images or videos of nature scenes as well as images of drug use and heroin-related paraphernalia, like syringes and packets of powder that resembled heroin. They were then asked to rate their craving for heroin and their levels of anxiety.
A week after the last administration of CBD, those who had been given CBD had a two- to three-fold reduction in cravings relative to the placebo group. Hurd said the difference between the two CBD groups was insignificant. The research team also measured heart rate and cortisol, the "stress hormone," and found that the levels in those who got CBD were significantly lower than those who hadn't received the drug
Cannabidiol for the Reduction of Cue-Induced Craving and Anxiety in Drug-Abstinent Individuals With Heroin Use Disorder: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial (DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18101191) (DX)
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 22 2019, @10:11AM (2 children)
If this form of cannabis gets people as high as smoking it, I wish pot smokers would choose it instead. I hate the smell of dead skunk. It's an odor we feared in the West and traded remedies to neutralize, but in the big city people volunteer to smell like ass.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:28PM
Ever have one of those moments where your grandma makes a statement that demonstrates a vast disconnection with a subject beyond your own capacity to explain it? Deep down, you still compulsively desire to transfer knowledge, but, remember the times in the past where you tried and realized 5 minutes in that you’re sorry you said anything.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday May 22 2019, @01:45PM
CBD is an oil that isn't usually smoked. It can be vaped, taken in pill form, or added to edibles. It doesn't get you high. It contains no THC, the restricted chemical in "pot".