Prescription

Current sort has key articles at the top. Click on "Article Date" to sort by date, click on specific "tag" to view all articles in that category.

Title/Link
Complexities in understanding and addressing the serious public health issues related to the nonmedical use of prescription drugs [1] 09/01/2016	A common theme among every article in this issue is the overlap be- tween NMUPD, excessive drinking, and marijuana and other forms of substance use. In every investigation, nonmedical users were observed to have a history of using alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and other psycho- active substances. Kalyanam, Katsuki, Lanckriet, and Mackey (2017) Kalyanam, J., Katsuki, T., Lanckriet, G., & Mackey, T. K. (2017). Exploring trends of non- medical use of prescription drugs and polydrug abuse in the Twittersphere using un- supervised machine learning. Addictive Behaviors, 65, 289–295. http://dx.doi.org/10 [2]. 1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.019. Studies [3], Research [4], Prescription [5], epidemic [6], 2017 Legislation [7]
FDA APPROVES SYNTHETIC LIQUID MARIJUANA COMPOUND [8] 07/28/2016	The FDA just approved a new, synthetic THC product for use in treating a variety of ailments, in liquid form. But despite being the first liquid THC replacement on the market, this may not be worth the buzz. FDA [9], Prescription [5], dronabinol [10]

Title/Link

Complexities in understanding and addressing the serious public health issues related to the nonmedical use of prescription drugs [1]
09/01/2016

A common theme among every article in this issue is the overlap be- tween NMUPD, excessive drinking, and marijuana and other forms of substance use. In every investigation, nonmedical users were observed to have a history of using alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and other psycho- active substances. Kalyanam, Katsuki, Lanckriet, and Mackey (2017)
Kalyanam, J., Katsuki, T., Lanckriet, G., & Mackey, T. K. (2017). Exploring trends of non- medical use of prescription drugs and polydrug abuse in the Twittersphere using un- supervised machine learning. Addictive Behaviors, 65, 289–295. http://dx.doi.org/10 [2]. 1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.019.

Studies [3], Research [4], Prescription [5], epidemic [6], 2017 Legislation [7]

FDA APPROVES SYNTHETIC LIQUID MARIJUANA COMPOUND [8]
07/28/2016

The FDA just approved a new, synthetic THC product for use in treating a variety of ailments, in liquid form. But despite being the first liquid THC replacement on the market, this may not be worth the buzz.

FDA [9], Prescription [5], dronabinol [10]

Links
[1] http://www.rethinkpot.org/complexities-understanding-and-addressing-serious-public-health-issues-related-nonmedical-use
[2] http://dx.doi.org/10
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/study
[4] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/research
[5] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/prescription
[6] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/epidemic
[7] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/2017-legislation
[8] http://www.rethinkpot.org/fda-approves-synthetic-liquid-marijuana-compound
[9] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/fda
[10] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/dronabinol

If you think legalizing marijuana won't affect you... Think Again.