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In its ongoing search for alternatives to recreational cannabis, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has been funding research into much more dangerous and addictive drugs — ostensibly to help people ween off cannabis. Recently NIDA supported a clinical trial which used nicotine as a therapy for relatively mild cannabis withdrawal symptoms.
Polypharmacy – the use of five or more medications on a daily basis – is a modern-day health crisis. Could cannabis be the safer alternative prescribers and patients are looking for?