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Cannabis Access Grows, but States Torn Over Whether Injured Workers Should Use It

03/19/2021
studies are a good first step and researchers want to discover which industries and occupations have more prevalent marijuana use. Researchers also need to study frequency and timing of consumption relative to work shifts as well as the relationship of consumption to productivity and workplace safety

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Study : Majority of Doctors Support Medical Pot for Pain

05/25/2021
Seventy-three percent of doctors surveyed in the U.S. believe in the use of cannabis as a medicine to treat pain according to recent data published in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. For the study a team of investigators affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and

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Weed Now Legal in State, but Employers Can Still Test Injured Workers

01/03/2020
have climbed in states that have legalized the drug. A study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco found that car accidents in Colorado increased by 10 in the two years after the state legalized recreational marijuana in 2012. The study which looked at data from 28

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Questions on Marijuana Grow as Use Spreads

10/29/2019
research study published last month in JAMA Network Open looked at marijuana use among adults with medical conditions in 2016 to 2017. Adults with medical conditions had higher rates of current and daily marijuana use compared to adults without medical conditions according to a telephone survey of

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What Will the Next 30 Years Teach Us?

01/07/2016
the way we perceive opioids today Will it take us 30 years to know the answers A recent study from the

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Study : 20 M Drug Users, Heavy Drinkers Work Full Time

07/19/2007
About 20 million full-time workers use illicit drugs or drink heavily with food-service and construction workers the most likely to imbibe according to a government study released this week. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's study "Worker

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Concerns Raised About Medical Marijuana's Impact on Comp Costs

12/28/2018
While some view medical marijuana as a potential way to reduce opioid use among injured workers thereby lowering claim costs others are concerned that providing marijuana will actually increase costs. In a workers comp market segment report released last week analysts with A.M. Best said

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Attorney: Comp Carrier Pays for Medical Cannabis in a First for Minnesota

05/03/2016
Hills an independent medical exam found that medical marijuana was reasonable and necessary for his client who was injured at work more than two decades ago and still has chronic pain and muscle spasms following two back surgeries. The IME was called for after the insurance carrier initially

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Study Links Pot, Effective Short-Term Pain Treatment

06/14/2022
Cannabis products with high levels of the psychedelic element found in marijuana tetrahydrocannabinol or THC may be associated with improvements in chronic pain according to a study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers examined ratios between THC and

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Marijuana's Role in Motor Vehicle Crashes Pondered

03/20/2019
accidents in Washington state following legalization according to a study cited in the report. But the institute noted that its unclear whether the fatalities were caused by marijuana impairment. However legalization of marijuana for medical rather than recreational use may have less of an impact on

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