Justin C. Strickland

Mar 24, 2024 | nature.com | Justin C. Strickland

AbstractCannabidiol (CBD) is widely used and believed to be non-intoxicating, lacking acute performance effects (e.g., non-impairing). However, a synthesis of data has not evaluated this. This meta-analysis synthesized data from controlled human laboratory studies that evaluated if acute CBD use impairs performance. Performance on objective and subjective measures of cognitive and psychomotor function were used as markers for potential performance changes and impairment.

Mar 12, 2024 | liebertpub.com | Justin C. Strickland |Albert Garcia-Romeu |Matthew Johnson

*Address correspondence to: Matthew W. Johnson, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224-6823, USA, E-mail Address: [email protected] of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Jul 26, 2023 | nature.com | Cassandra D. Gipson |Justin C. Strickland

Changes in the drug supply landscape directly influence morbidity and mortality with the reduced efficacy of naloxone to reverse fentanyl overdose (versus heroin) emphasizing this impact [1]. The rapid spread of the veterinary anesthetic xylazine in the opioid drug supply (also known as “tranq”) poses a similar public health challenge resulting in a 1127% increase in xylazine-positive overdose mortalities in the American south from 2020 to 2021 [2].