Las posibilidades de que el cannabis pueda actuar como un sustituto de los opioides deben servir para promover más investigaciones. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.
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According to data from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), every day 91 Americans died due to opioid-related overdose in 2015 [1]. Between 2000 and 2015 over half a million people have lost their lives. Opioids can rarely be blamed on their own, in most cases opioids combined with other drugs, most often anti-anxiety benzodiazepines such as Xanax (alprazolam) and Valium (diazepam), lead to the tragedy. The latest CDC data is from 2015 and at that time the end of the epidemic was not even in sight. The problem has reached a point where it is arguably one of the greatest public health issues in the States. Even late night talk show hosts, like John Oliver, are talking about the phenomenon.
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