{"id":1313,"date":"2024-06-10T23:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/upending-conventional-wisdom-researchers-say-cannabis-use-doesnt-hinder-ptsd-therapy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T23:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:55:40","slug":"upending-conventional-wisdom-researchers-say-cannabis-use-doesnt-hinder-ptsd-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/upending-conventional-wisdom-researchers-say-cannabis-use-doesnt-hinder-ptsd-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Upending conventional wisdom, researchers say cannabis use doesn\u2019t hinder PTSD therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the risks associated with self-medicating for mental health issues, cannabis use may not be as disruptive to typical posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) therapy as once assumed, a Rutgers study has found. &#8220;Some providers believe cannabis use impedes PTSD treatment, and that cannabis use while in PTSD therapy could increase drop-out rates and exacerbate symptoms,&#8221; said Tanya C. Saraiya, an assistant professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and co-author of the study published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders. &#8220;Our findings challenge this assumption.&#8221; As <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/upending-conventional-wisdom-researchers-say-cannabis-use-doesnt-hinder-ptsd-therapy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the risks associated with self-medicating for mental health issues, cannabis use may not be as disruptive to typical posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) therapy as once assumed, a Rutgers study has found. &#8220;Some providers believe cannabis use impedes PTSD treatment, and that cannabis use while in PTSD therapy could increase drop-out rates and exacerbate symptoms,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}