With more Americans able to access legalized marijuana, fewer are picking up prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications – new research

By Ashley Bradford, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

In states where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal, fewer patients are filling prescriptions for medications used to treat anxiety. That is the key finding of my recent study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open.

I am an applied policy researcher who studies the economics of risky behaviors and substance use within the United States. My collaborators and I wanted to understand how medical and recreational…

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