Results from the Colorado Cannabis Users Survey on Health (CUSH), 2016

Contreras, Alexandra Elyse; Hall, Katelyn E.; Vigil, Daniel; Rosenthal, Allison; Azofeifa, Alejandro; Dyke, Mike Van

doi:10.1007/s11469-018-0047-x

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“…Approaching this topic among healthcare professionals who manage patients treated with medical cannabis provides a perspective which is likely to be unrepresentative of the entire population of patients who use cannabis for medical purposes. Indeed, according to a survey amongst Colorado residents, 48% of adult cannabis users who used cannabis to treat a medical condition had a medical cannabis patient card, meaning that around half of them self-medicated without being supervised by healthcare professionals 6 . This proportion is likely to be higher in countries in which medical use of cannabis is not authorized.…”

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“…However, this legal status has significantly evolved since 2010 as several countries all over the world have authorized the therapeutic or even recreational use of cannabis (the latter was approved mainly in North and South Americas), while other countries are considering similar moves [2][3][4][5] . Pieces of evidence indicate that in areas where cannabis is fully authorised, about half of all cannabis users use this drug to treat a medical condition 6 . Since 2020, medicinal cannabis products with a marketing authorization are available in Europe, but the use of raw cannabis preparations for medical purposes is still rarely legal.…”

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Establishing and Evaluating a Study Questionnaire on Knowledge and Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals Towards Recreational and Medical Cannabis Across Europe

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Establishing and Evaluating a Study Questionnaire on Knowledge and Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals Towards Recreational and Medical Cannabis Across Europe

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“…Reviewers also abstracted the route of exposure (e.g., oral ingestion or vaporization) and dose information if outlined in the record. If the route of exposure was not overtly stated as edible ingestion or vaporized, then it was assumed that the patient utilized an inhaled form of the drug, as this is the most common form of ingestion in CO [18][19][20].…”

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Why do patients come to the emergency department after using cannabis?

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Background: Cannabis (MJ) policy liberalization in a majority of US states has impacted emergency department (ED) visits. It is important to understand why people come to the ED after using MJ because the drug is now available to experienced and naïve people across the country. The objectives of this study were to (1) improve upon administrative dataset methodology by performing additional chart review to describe ED visits related to cannabis, (2) understand why patients come to the ED after using cannabis, and (3) begin to inform our understanding of cannabis-attributable ED visits to start to educate patients and providers about cannabis' safety. Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of ED visits identified by cannabis ICD-9 and 10-CM codes between 2012 and 2016. Visits were reviewed and determined if the visit was partially attributable to cannabis based upon a pre-specified definition, then categorized into clinical complaint categories. Descriptive statistics, Chi-Square, and T-tests were used to elucidate the data. Results: About one-fourth (25.74%) of visits with cannabis ICD-CM codes were found to be at least partially attributable to cannabis. These patients are more often young, Caucasian males when compared to the overall ED population (p < .0001). Patients with a cannabis-attributable visit were more often admitted to the hospital (p < .0001). The most common complaints in cannabis-attributable visits were gastrointestinal and psychiatric complaints, as well as intoxication. The number of cannabis-attributable visits rose with time (p=.012).

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“…Substance abuse among young people is also an issue of great concern for their long-term psychological and physical health effects [ 4 ]. For instance, acute adverse health effects following cannabis use were reported by 40% of the participants in a study conducted by Contreras et al [ 5 ]. According to this study the most common effects were paranoia, increased heart rate, panic attacks, or anxiety, whereas fewer reported experiencing more severe effects like hallucinations or loss of consciousness.…”

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Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle through Mindfulness in University Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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The present study explored the effects of a second-generation mindfulness-based intervention known as flow meditation (Meditación-Fluir) in the improvement of healthy life behaviors. A sample of university students (n = 51) in Spain were randomly assigned to a seven-week mindfulness treatment or a waiting list control group. Results showed that compared to the control group, individuals in the mindfulness group demonstrated significant improvements across all outcome measures including healthy eating habits (balanced diet, intake rate, snacking between meals, decrease in consumption by negative emotional states, increased consumption by negative emotional states, amount of consumption, meal times, consumption of low-fat products), tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis consumption, and resting habits. There were differences between males and females in some of these variables and a better effect of the treatment was evident in the females of the experimental group when compared to the males. The flow meditation program shows promise for fostering a healthy lifestyle, thus decreasing behaviors related to maladaptive eating, tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis consumption as well as negative rest habits in university students. This mindfulness program could significantly contribute to the treatment of eating disorders and addictions, wherein negative emotional states and impulsivity are central features of the condition.

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Results from the Colorado Cannabis Users Survey on Health (CUSH), 2016

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Establishing and Evaluating a Study Questionnaire on Knowledge and Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals Towards Recreational and Medical Cannabis Across Europe

Establishing and Evaluating a Study Questionnaire on Knowledge and Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals Towards Recreational and Medical Cannabis Across Europe

Why do patients come to the emergency department after using cannabis?

Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle through Mindfulness in University Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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