The clinical teacher
Authors: Byram JN, Frankel RM, Isaacson JH, Mehta N
Authors: Mason AE, Kasl P, Hartogensis W, Natale JL, Dilchert S, Dasgupta S, Purawat S, Chowdhary A, Anglo C, Veasna D, Pandya LS, Fox LM, Puldon KY, Prather JG, Gupta A, Altintas I, Smarr BL, Hecht FM
Authors: Kotwal AA, Cenzer IS, Waite LJ, Smith AK, Perissinotto CM, Hawkley LC
Authors: Putman M, Kennedy K, Sirotich E, Liew JW, Sattui SE, Moni TT, Akpabio AA, Alpizar-Rodriguez D, Angevare S, Beesley RP, Berenbaum F, Bulina I, Chock YPE, Conway R, Duarte-García A, Singh AD, Duff E, Durrant KL, Gheita TA, Hill CL, Howard R, Hoyer BF, Hsieh E, El Kibbi L, Kilian A, Kim AHJ, Liew DFL, Lo C, Mateus EF, Miller B, Mingolla S, Nudel M, Singh JA, Singh N, Ugarte-Gil MF, Wallace J, Young KJ, Zamora-Tehozol EA, Bhana S, Costello W, Grainger R, Machado PM, Robinson PC, Sufka P, Wallace ZS, Yazdany J, Harrison C, Larché MJ, Levine M, Foster G, Thabane L, Hausmann JS, Sparks JA, Simard JF
Volume 48 of Issue 3 | The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse
Authors: Assaf RD, Gorbach PM, Cooper ZD
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, cannabis dispensaries in the United States (US) reported increased sales. This study assessed changes in cannabis use before to during the pandemic; it was hypothesized that cannabis use increased during the pandemic. A US-based survey of adults assessed patterns of use before and during the pandemic. Participants recruited via social media from 8/2020 to 9/2020 self-reported medical and non-medical cannabis use. Use was categorized as ≤ monthly, weekly, and daily/almost daily; adjusted logistic regressions determined associations between cannabis use before the pandemic with change in frequency during the pandemic. Of 1,886 respondents (63% male),1,113 reported non-medical and 603 medical use of cannabis. Those reporting ≤monthly non-medical use before the pandemic had higher odds of increasing use during the pandemic than those using weekly before the pandemic (AOR 3.2 [95% CI 2.2-4.5]). Those reporting ≤ monthly and daily medical cannabis use before the pandemic had higher odds of increasing use during the pandemic than those using weekly before the pandemic (AOR 2.3 [95% 1.3, 3.9]; AOR 2.4 [95% CI 1.2, 5.1] respectively). The most notable increases in cannabis use during the pandemic were among those who reported using cannabis least frequently before the pandemic (two to three times odds of increased use among ≤ monthly use compared to weekly). These findings have important implications for potential health consequences related to increased cannabis use both during and after the pandemic, even in populations thought to be protected by minimal use prior to the pandemic.
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Authors: Peloso GM, Tcheandjieu C, McGeary JE, Posner DC, Ho YL, Zhou JJ, Hilliard AT, Joseph J, O'Donnell CJ, Efird JT, Crawford DC, Wu WC, Arjomandi M, VA Million Veteran Program COVID-19 Science Initiative, Sun YV, Assimes TL, Huffman JE
Authors: Hu Z, van der Ploeg K, Chakraborty S, Arunachalam P, Mori D, Jacobson K, Bonilla H, Parsonnet J, Andrews J, Hedlin H, de la Parte L, Dantzler K, Ty M, Tan G, Blish C, Takahashi S, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Greenhouse B, Butte A, Singh U, Pulendran B, Wang T, Jagannathan P
Authors: Riley AR, Kiang MV, Chen YH, Bibbins-Domingo K, Glymour MM
Lupus science & medicine
Authors: Plantinga LC, Hoge C, Dunlop-Thomas C, Pearce BD, Lim SS, Drenkard C, Bowling CB
NEJM Catalyst
Authors: Dana Freiser, BS, BA, RN, Merjo Roca, BA, RN, Tony Chung, PharmD,
Tanvi Bhakta, MSN, RN, CNL, Lisa G. Winston, MD, Gabriel M. Ortiz, MD, PhD
