Cannabis Use Disorder Is Rising Among US Adults
Cannabis use disorder increased among US adult males and females from 2021 through 2024. The national survey also found growth in moderate-to-severe disorder across several age groups. The findings support routine screening but do not identify a cause or…
NY Times Response: Teens and Strong Cannabis
High-potency cannabis risks deserve serious attention, especially for adolescents and frequent users. But potency is not the same as dose, frequent use is not itself addiction, and detectable THC is not synonymous with impairment. A closer reading of the…
Telehealth Plus Mobile Monitoring for Cannabis Use Disorder: MOMENT-V Pilot Trial Launches in Young Adults
MOMENT-V cannabis use disorder trial: A newly published protocol describes a 60-participant pilot randomized trial testing a telehealth-plus-mobile-health intervention for cannabis use disorder in young adults treated in primary care. The trial has not…
Varenicline for Cannabis Use Disorder: What Five Studies Show
Varenicline for cannabis use disorder: A systematic review of five studies involving 299 participants found mixed efficacy and tolerability results. Only one study was rated high quality, and methods were too heterogeneous for meta-analysis. Current…
Insights on Cannabis Craving and Cross-Substance Use from Pooled Trial Data
This pooled analysis of 829 patients examines cannabis craving and cross-substance use, revealing modest, borderline associations with next-week alcohol and cigarette use. The findings highlight the importance of monitoring polysubstance use during…
Are We Over-Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder in Prescribed Medical Cannabis Patients?
prescription cannabis use disorder: A new Addiction journal study of 2,054 Australians prescribed medical cannabis found that removing tolerance and withdrawal from Cannabis Use Disorder criteria cut apparent disorder rates among as-prescribed patients…
Cannabis Use, Cannabis Use Disorder Are Not The Same
Cannabis use and cannabis use disorder showed partly different genetic relationships with selected brain-imaging traits in a large 2026 analysis. The findings support treating use and disorder as related but noninterchangeable research phenotypes. They…
UK Medical Cannabis Use: What a New National Survey Found
A new UK national survey examined uk medical cannabis prescriptions and their link to high-risk use. The study found prescribed users more frequently used processed products and screened positive for high-risk use. These findings highlight the need for…
PTSD and Solitary Substance Use: Different Risks for Alcohol and Cannabis
A recent study reveals that PTSD solitary alcohol use risk is significantly linked to increased alcohol-related problems, unlike solitary cannabis use. This finding challenges assumptions that all solitary substance use carries the same risk for those…
CED Cannabis Science Digest: Key Psychosis and Craving Signals
This digest highlights cannabis psychosis vulnerability signals, focusing on sex-specific risk differences, craving subtypes, and EEG brain-pattern changes in cannabis use disorder. These signals improve psychiatric interpretation without claiming…