Specifically, the rate rose 1,804 per cent from 20.7 per 100,000 visits in 2005 to 395 per 100,000 ED visits in 2019. There has been much concern raised about cannabis edibles-related emergency department (ED) visits among young people of late. Per the latest study, “older Black adults had the highest ED visit rate in 2019 and the largest absolute increase while older males had a higher ED visit rate in 2019 and a greater absolute increase than older women,” authors write. Investigators with the university’s School of Medicine were looking to examine trends in cannabis-related ED visits, so analyzed data from the Department of Healthcare Access and Information from 2005 to 2019. Although ED visits spiked between 2013 and 2017, the university reports, they then levelled off in 2017 after adult-use cannabis was implemented. “The availability of recreational cannabis does not appear to correlate with a higher rate of cannabis-related emergency department visits among older adults,” it adds.
There has been much concern raised about cannabis edibles-related emergency department (ED) visits among young people of late. Now, researchers out of the University of California San Diego are sounding the alarm about the elderly, too.
Investigators with the university’s School of Medicine were looking to examine trends in cannabis-related ED visits, so analyzed data from the Department of Healthcare Access and Information from 2005 to 2019.
Both medicinal and recreational cannabis are legal in the state, with the former green-lit in 1996 and the former two decades later in 2016,...
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