BONG AT YOUR OUR RISK –
Jan. 3, 2023 – Cannabis is the most commonly used recreational drug in the U.S. and the most commonly used psychoactive substance after alcohol, noted guideline co-author and ASRA Pain Medicine president Samer Narouze, MD, PhD, of Northeast Ohio Medical University in Akron.
About 10% of the population — 27.6 million people — reported monthly use in 2017, according to data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and that number is growing, Narouze added. Recent Gallup poll numbers place the number of Americans who smoke marijuana opens in a new tab or window at about 16%.
“That’s why we’ve been working on these guidelines for the last 2 years, because we have millions of people using cannabis recreationally or medicinally,” Narouze said in an interview with MedPage Today.
