Self-Medication of Somatic and Psychiatric Conditions Using Botanical Marijuana
Self-Medication of Somatic and Psychiatric Conditions Using Botanical Marijuana
复制标题
DOI：
10.1080/02791072.2015.1096433
复制
发表时间：
2015-10-20
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Lang, Brent
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Osborn, Lawrence A.;Lauritsen, Kirstin J.;Lang, Brent
作为评估植物大麻作为各种躯体和精神疾病的药物疗法的研究的补充，越来越多的研究评估大麻使用者在没有医生建议的情况下使用大麻的症状和状况的自我报告。作为两项大型网络调查和一项户外大麻节现场调查的一部分，我们询问经常吸食大麻的人是否在没有医生建议的情况下服用该药物，如果是，请描述（或从清单中选择）他们使用大麻作为药物的情况。参与者报告使用大麻来自我治疗各种躯体疾病（如疼痛、糖尿病和肠易激综合症）和精神疾病（如抑郁、焦虑和失眠）。由于美国只有不到一半的州和少数几个国家允许医生推荐药用大麻，因此这些发现可能会引起治疗患者的临床医生的兴趣，立法者和政策制定者考虑立法允许医生推荐植物大麻治疗躯体和精神疾病的立法者和政策制定者的兴趣，以及评估个人选择使用植物大麻进行自我治疗的情况的研究人员的兴趣。
As a complement to research evaluating botanical marijuana as a medical therapy for various somatic and psychiatric conditions, there is a growing body of research assessing marijuana users' self-reports of the symptoms and conditions for which they use marijuana without a physician's recommendation. As part of two larger web-based surveys and one in-situ survey at an outdoor marijuana festival, we asked regular marijuana users if they consumed the drug without a physician's recommendation and, if so, to describe (or select from a checklist) the conditions for which they used marijuana as a medication. Participants reported using marijuana to self-medicate a wide variety of both somatic conditions (such as pain, diabetes, and irritable bowel syndrome) and psychiatric conditions (such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia). Because fewer than half of the American states, and only a few countries, allow physicians to recommend medicinal marijuana, these findings may be of interest to clinicians as they treat patients, to lawmakers and policymakers as they consider legislation allowing physicians to recommend botanical marijuana for somatic and psychiatric conditions, and to researchers evaluating conditions that individuals elect to self-medicate using botanical marijuana.