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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @11:06PM (1 child)
And neither has done anything to help the impressionable youths do anything except be impressioned that authority is good, and to obey authority, even if if is making you do something illegal or bad (like shooting you up with heroin to make you more malleable for their own sexual misconduct...)
The best thing we could do for society today is make it legal to record all interactions with other people in public, and require a prominent tag on clothing in private indicating that you are recording the exchange, and that said recording is only valid in providing evidence of a crime and not for personal or commercial usage.
This would do far more to keep us safe from actual predators and those who abuse drugs to control others (whether voluntary or involuntary in their initial usage) and keeps pervasive surveillance out of the hands of the government, where it cannot be trusted at all.
A decade ago having the government provide that infrastructure might have made sense, but today it should be handled by civilians and not made too easy to stream into the cloud for public consumption. It's entirely doable, but requires society to demand the changes itself.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday May 23 2019, @06:01PM
Yeah, let's stray away from the total privacy invasion that recording every little thing ever, would introduce. Sure, it might be beneficial in some aspects, but it won't lead to a free society. It's much more likely to lead to a totalitarian regime of some sort.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"