According to a new study, teenagers in substance abuse treatment often use medical marijuana recommended to someone else - "diverted" medical marijuana. The study, conducted by Stacy Salomonsen-Sautel, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Colorado School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology and her colleagues in the Department of Psychiatry, examined 164 adolescent who were in one of two substance abuse treatment programs in the Denver metropolitan area.
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A study published in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that diverted medical marijuana use among adolescents receiving treatment for substance abuse is very common. S... Read Post