drug use – Marijuana Impact Group https://themig.org Marijuana Impact Group Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:28:12 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 https://themig.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/logo_reduced-150x150.png drug use – Marijuana Impact Group https://themig.org 32 32 Monthly cannabis use rates are now greater than alcohol use https://themig.org/monthly-cannabis-use-rates-are-now-greater-than-alcohol-use/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:28:06 +0000 https://www.thenmi.org/?p=7693 When comparing daily use rates of cannabis to daily alcohol consumption, cannabis users are now 7.4 times more likely to engage in daily use compared to alcohol drinkers. Self-reported cannabis use, in the last 30 days, was nearly 4 times higher than alcohol usage for the same metric. From 1992 until 2022, the reported frequency rate of “daily or near daily” cannabis use increased by nearly 15-fold.

This study was released in the academic journal “Addiction” by Carnegie Mellon Professor, Dr. Jonathan Caulkins. Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), from 1979 – 2022, frequency of use rates for alcohol and cannabis were assessed from the over 1.6 million survey respondents. Cannabis use frequency rates were at it all time low in 1992, but they have continued to increase to currently outpacing those who drink alcohol. While the number of people who drink alcohol versus use cannabis is greater, the frequency rate of cannabis use is higher by 3 – 4 times that of alcohol consumption. 

Factors that have contributed to the increase in cannabis use include the nationwide push towards legalization, a reduction in criminal consequences and an overall loosening of public policy and opinion.   

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]]> Adult Marijuana Use Reaches Record Levels  https://themig.org/adult-marijuana-use-reaches-record-levels/ Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:11:06 +0000 https://www.thenmi.org/?p=7261 In the latest edition of the “Monitoring the Future” (MTF) report found that young adults not in college used marijuana products at a rate of 3 times that of young adults enrolled fulltime in college. Other findings included that marijuana use for adults aged 19 to 50 have reached record numbers. Additionally, the rate of vaping marijuana products has continued to rise over the last several years. The most notable increases taking place after marijuana was made legal for commercial adult use in the United States.

The MTF study examines national level data on substance use trends among teenagers and adults, ages 19 – 60 years, and has collected annual data since 1976. With well over 110,000 people surveyed to date, the MTF offers an extensive historical reference for substance use trends over the last 4 decades in America. 

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]]> Substance Use and COVID Outcome Risks https://themig.org/substance-use-and-covid-outcome-risks/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:25:31 +0000 https://www.thenmi.org/?p=4918 Psychiatry Online released a study on November 3rd, 2020 concerning the negative impacts that substance use disorders (SUD) has on adults that have been diagnosed with COVID-19. The authors (Baillargeon, J. et.al.) provide information on over 54,000 COVID-19 patients as it relates to the outcomes of (1) hospitalization, (2) ventilator use and (3) death. Within that group, those with a diagnosed SUD (5,562 patients) were associated with higher risk factors for all three outcomes. 

Some conditions cited by the authors for the elevated risk factors to those with a SUD include poor access to health care, homelessness, compromised respiratory and immune systems associated to substance use. To read more from the report, “The Impact of Substance Use Disorder on COVID-19 Outcomes” please use the link button below.

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