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Calling taking a medicine an addiction is strange, sounds like they do not factor in it being a medicine. For example, those with autism or schizophrenia have
by mudcrab 3y ago
Calling taking a medicine an addiction is strange, sounds like they do not factor in it being a medicine.
For example, those with autism or schizophrenia have a faulty 'fatty acid binding protein 5' (fabp5)[1] which moves endocannabinoids to where they are needed[2]. Flooding the bloodstream with cannabis seems to help[3] by unlocking receptors that would normally be unlocked by endocannabinoids delivered by fabp5.
Obviously this is just one of many health benefits, such as muscle recovery[4] (who would even want that??? bloody addicts i tell ya!)
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240203 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240203
2. https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2018/03/013.html https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2018/03/013.html
3. https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/mornings/medicinal-cannabis-study-children-with-asd/101669836 https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/mornings/medicinal...
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369499 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8369499
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- mpalmer 3y ago> Calling taking a medicine an addiction is strange Treating medicine and addictive substances as mutually exclusive categories is much stranger.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoImagine biting this same bullet for benzos and opioids.
- incompatible 3y agoThere's no reason why it couldn't be both: helping some people while harming others, and perhaps having little effect at all on a third group.