{"id":273886,"date":"2025-12-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-medical-cannabis-program-reduces-opioid-use\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:20:02","slug":"el-programa-de-cannabis-medicinal-reduce-el-consumo-de-opioides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-programa-de-cannabis-medicinal-reduce-el-consumo-de-opioides\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Cannabis Program Reduces Opioid Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">BRONX, N.Y.<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 8, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Adults with chronic pain who participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4573900-1&amp;h=3831809979&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fcannabis.ny.gov%2Fmedical-cannabis%23%3A%7E%3Atext%3DHow%2520The%2520Program%2520Works%26text%3DAfter%2520getting%2520certified%2520by%2520a%2Cdispensary%2520to%2520purchase%2520cannabis%2520products.&amp;a=New+York+State%27s+(NYS)+Medical+Cannabis+Program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-location\">New York State&#8217;s<\/span> (NYS) Medical Cannabis Program<\/a> were significantly less likely to require prescription opioids, according to a new study published today in\u00a0<i>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/i> and led by researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4573900-1&amp;h=1781281698&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Feinsteinmed.edu%2F&amp;a=Albert+Einstein+College+of+Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Albert Einstein College<\/span> of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4573900-1&amp;h=3548507333&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmontefioreeinstein.org%2F&amp;a=Montefiore+Health+System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Montefiore Health System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg774fleft\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg774fleft\" title=\"Montefiore\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1480036\/MontefioreLogo2010_noTag_20high_20res_ID_bf9f32ca3fef_Logo_V1.jpg\" alt=\"Montefiore\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Chronic pain and opioid addiction are two of the most pressing health challenges in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4573900-1&amp;h=2535918256&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Feinsteinmed.edu%2Ffaculty%2F16173%2Fdeepika-e-slawek&amp;a=Deepika+E.+Slawek%2C+M.D.%2C+M.S.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Deepika E. Slawek<\/span>, M.D., M.S.<\/a>, the study&#8217;s lead author, associate professor of medicine at Einstein, and an internal medicine and addiction medicine specialist at Montefiore. &#8220;Our findings indicate that medical cannabis, when dispensed through a pharmacist-supervised system, can relieve chronic pain while also meaningfully reducing patients&#8217; reliance on prescription opioids. Supervised use of medical cannabis could be an important tool in combatting the opioid crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study involved 204 adults who were prescribed opioids for chronic pain and were newly certified for medical cannabis between <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 2018<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 2023<\/span>. Participants were tracked for 18 months, with data on both their cannabis and opioid use collected from the <span class=\"xn-location\">New York State<\/span> Prescription Monitoring Program.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the study, most participants reported high levels of pain and were taking an average daily opioid dose equivalent to 73.3 mg of morphine. Over the 18-month follow-up period, that average daily dose fell to 57 mg, a 22% reduction.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, those participants who received a 30-day supply of medical cannabis used the equivalent of 3.5 fewer mg of morphine per day than those who received no cannabis during the same month. &#8220;Those changes may seem small, but gradual reductions in opioid use are safer and more sustainable for people managing chronic pain than stopping suddenly,&#8221; Dr. Slawek noted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This research adds to the growing body of evidence supporting a medicalized model of cannabis use, where pharmacists are actively involved in dispensaries and cannabis is treated like other prescription drugs,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4573900-1&amp;h=2807115593&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Feinsteinmed.edu%2Ffaculty%2F3677%2Fjulia-h-arnsten&amp;a=Julia+Arnsten%2C+M.D.%2C+M.P.H.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"xn-person\">Julia Arnsten<\/span>, M.D., M.P.H.<\/a>, the study&#8217;s senior author, chief of the division of general internal medicine at Montefiore Einstein, and professor of medicine, of epidemiology &amp; population health, and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. &#8220;We hope these findings will lead to new policies encouraging the effective management of chronic pain through the use of regulated substances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other Montefiore Einstein authors were Chenshu Zhang, Ph.D.; <span class=\"xn-person\">Yuval Zolotov<\/span>, Ph.D.; <span class=\"xn-person\">Joanna L. Starrels<\/span>, M.D., M.S.; <span class=\"xn-person\">Yuting Deng<\/span>, Ph.D.; <span class=\"xn-person\">Giovanna Calderon DiFrancesca<\/span>, B.A.; <span class=\"xn-person\">Jonathan Ross<\/span>, M.D., M.S.; and Chinazo O. Cunningham, M.D., M.S.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4573900-1&amp;h=3935262052&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1480036%2FMontefioreLogo2010_noTag_20high_20res_ID_bf9f32ca3fef_Logo_V1.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1480036%2FMontefioreLogo2010_noTag_20high_20res_ID_bf9f32ca3fef_Logo_V1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1480036\/MontefioreLogo2010_noTag_20high_20res_ID_bf9f32ca3fef_Logo_V1.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Montefiore Health System<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">BRONX, N.Y.<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 8, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Adults with chronic pain who participated in &lt;a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273886"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273888,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273886\/revisions\/273888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}