✦ New CED Clinical Relevance #80High Clinical Relevance Strong evidence or policy relevance with direct clinical implications. ⚒ Cannabis News | CED Clinic Addiction MedicineHarm ReductionAlcohol Use DisorderSubstitution TherapyMental Health Why This MattersCannabis-alcohol substitution patterns have...
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Use Disorders: What a Kenyan Hospital Study Shows
Adverse childhood experiences and substance use disorders are examined in this cross-sectional study of adults receiving inpatient treatment at a psychiatric referral hospital in Kenya. The paper shows that ACE exposure was extremely common and that certain childhood adversities were associated with higher odds of current tobacco, cannabis, and sedative use. Adverse childhood experiences and substance use disorders clearly belong in the same clinical conversation, but this study does not prove that childhood trauma directly caused later substance use.
Smoked cannabis reduces immediate alcohol consumption in controlled laboratory trial
✦ New CED Clinical Relevance #88High Clinical Relevance Strong evidence or policy relevance with direct clinical implications. ⚒ Cannabis News | CED Clinic Alcohol Use DisorderHarm ReductionSubstance InteractionsAddiction MedicineThc Why This MattersThis controlled laboratory finding provides...
Evaluating cannabis substitution for alcohol within the context of a canadian managed alcohol program.
Managed Alcohol Programs (MAPs) provide beverage alcohol alongside housing and social supports to mitigate alcohol-related harms among individuals experienci…
Reductions in cigarette and cannabis use during a randomized clinical trial for alcohol use disorder.
Alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis are the most frequently used psychoactive substances in the United States and are commonly used concurrently. This study analy…
Perceived partner substance use, genetic predispositions, and their associations with problematic alcohol use, emotional well-being, and relationship quality.
Romantic relationships are important contexts for substance use and emotional well-being. We tested the hypotheses that (i) genetic predispositions for alcoh…
Smoking Cannabis May Reduce Alcohol Cravings, New Study Finds – Food & Wine
✦ New CED Clinical Relevance #75 Strong Clinical Relevance High-quality evidence with meaningful patient or clinical significance. ResearchMental HealthTHCSafety Why This Matters Clinicians should recognize that cannabis use may modulate alcohol cravings...
Cannabinoid Clinical Trials: Cannabis Effects on Alcohol Urge
Clinical Takeaway People who use alcohol heavily and cannabis regularly show different responses to cannabis depending on their working memory capacity, meaning the brain’s ability to hold and process information temporarily. In...
Cannabis-Infused Drinks May Help People Cut Their Alcohol Intake in Half
If you or someone you know struggles with cannabis dependence, new treatments are finally in development—because right now, there are zero FDA-approved medications to help. ZME Science reports on the University at Buffalo study (Journal of Psychoactive Drugs) finding cannabis beverage users cut weekly alcohol intake from 7.02 to 3.35 drinks—nearly in half. Among 438 adults surveyed, 62.6% reduced or stopped drinking alcohol entirely, with fewer binge episodes reported.