According to researchers, 12,167 California seniors made trips to emergency rooms in 2019.
“Many patients assume they aren’t going to have adverse side-effects from cannabis because they often don’t view it as seriously as they would a prescription drug,” said Dr. Benjamin Han, a geriatrician who authored the study. “I do see a lot of older adults who are overly confident, saying they know how to handle it — yet as they have gotten older, their bodies are more sensitive, and the concentrations are very different from what they may have tried when they were younger.
Researchers cited"a growing number of older adults ... experimenting with cannabis to help alleviate chronic symptoms" as responsible, in part, for the wave of ER visitors. Among other reasons, geriatricians will likely be concerned about study's findings due to the fact that older patients"are at a higher risk for adverse health effects associated with psychoactive substances," according to a news release issued by UC San Diego this week.
Although some older users are experimenting with the drug as a component of palliative care, others are imbibing recreationally, of course. Both groups — who, researchers believe, are under the impression that their risk of regular use is decreasing — are using marijuana in increasing numbers since 2005; both have contributed to the spike in trips to the hospital, researchers believe.
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