Abstract

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.

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