The United States, Canada, and Brazil are reeling from an epidemic of drug abuse. Of the estimated 21 million cocaine addicts in the world, most are present in these three countries.
Painkillers and crack cocaine lead to deaths from overdose and complications arising from addiction. Plus, the mode of consumption with crack is often responsible for the spread of communicable diseases such as AIDS. Infected needles are invariably the culprit.
Research in Canada has suggested that weed could become a substitute for crack cocaine. It could wean crack addicts away from the drug and help mitigate the harmful effects that accompany cocaine use. One study among crack users showed that regular use of cannabis helped bring down crack use by up to 35% in a day.
A similar study in Brazil with 25 crack using volunteers found that self-medication with cannabis to give up crack abuse led to complete recovery for around 14 participants. This study lasted for 9 months.
It appears that crack addicts have known about the healing properties of weed with respect to reducing cravings for cocaine. Researchers are hopeful of finding out whether cannabis can actually be prescribed as medicine for minimizing the harm done by cocaine or as treatment for cocaine addiction. Once the mechanism is understood, it may be possible to prescribe cannabis in accurate doses for not just crack but also other harmful drugs.
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Yeah, let’s just replace one drug with another. That makes sense. Maybe the addict just needs to go to rehab and get off that shit the old fashion way.
I feel like this could be a great way for people to recover from such a harmful drugs.
People using such hard and harmful drugs should be put in rehab and rehab only.
Anyone that uses these types of drugs, crack, meth, pain killers as a way to get high deserve what they get. You share dirty needles your going to get a disease! It is common sense.
Very interesting. I feel like there could have been more information though.
I would love to see hard drug users move from their drugs to weed. If it helps I would rather then use pot than using crack!
Bananas are healthier for you than crack is.
Carrots are healthier than crack.
Corn is healthier than cocaine.
Crack is healthier than meth..
How about crack and meth are bad…..just in general..
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SMOKE POT!
Even science can save the addicts!