Articles About CBD and Addiction

The Opioid Crisis: Can Cannabis Help?
For people suffering from chronic pain, opioids like OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet, and Demerol have often been the only way to get relief. But that relief comes at a high price, as these drugs have a high risk for and accidental overdose. Today there are more than 64,000 deaths a year in the U.S. from opioid... Continue

CBD Research and Addiction

• CBD reduces cigarette consumption in tobacco smokers
• CBD inhibits the reward-facilitating effect of morphine
• Cannabidiol, a nonpsychotropic component of cannabis, inhibits cue-induced heroin seeking and normalizes discrete mesolimbic neuronal disturbances
• CBD as an Intervention for Addictive Behaviors
• Differential effect of cannabinol and cannabidiol on THC-induced responses during abstinence in morphine-dependent rats
• Impact of Cannabis Use during Stabilization on Methadone Maintenance Treatment
• Medical cannabis laws and opioid analgesic overdose mortality in the United States, 1999-2010
• Inhibition of monoacylglycerol lipase enzyme reduces nicotine withdrawal
• Dysregulation of cannabinoid CB1 receptor and associated signaling networks in brains of cocaine addicts and cocaine-treated rodents
• Comparison of CBD, antioxidants, and diuretics in reversing binge ethanol-induced neurotoxicity
• Transdermal delivery of CBD attenuates binge alcohol-induced neurodegeneration in a rodent model of an alcohol use disorder
• CBD for the treatment of cannabis withdrawal syndrome
• Cannabis use disorders are comparatively prevalent among nonwhite racial/ethnic groups and adolescents