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Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33198
Subject(s) - general partnership , addiction treatment , addiction , psychiatry , medicine , criminology , political science , family medicine , psychology , law
A patient in Pennsylvania, Tyler Cordeiro, was denied addiction treatment funding because he had a medical marijuana card, and died from an overdose a few weeks later. According to a report published by The Philadelphia Inquirer last week in partnership with PennLive/ The Patriot‐News , TribLive/Pittsburgh Tribune‐Review and WITF Public Media, Pennsylvania, one of the few states to endorse marijuana as a treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), found that the state's Department of Health was refusing to say how many patients are using this treatment.