Bloomberg (3/29, Kary) reports, “Teenagers’ addiction rates for cannabis are about the same as for prescription opioids,” researchers concluded in a study “based on data from 2015 to 2018 collected by national surveys done by an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.” The study revealed that one “year after first trying cannabis, almost 10.7% of adolescents age 12 to 17 met the criteria of addiction.” Teens “in the same age group who tried prescription opioids had a similar addiction rate of 11.2%.”
HCPlive (3/29, Kunzmann) reports, “Substance use disorder is more prevalent among cannabis and prescription” medication “users who initiated use in their adolescence than in their early adulthood,” researchers also concluded. The findings were published online March 29 in a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics.
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— “Cannabis Almost as Addictive as Opioids Among Teens, Study Finds “Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg, March 29, 2021