Frequent cannabis users miss more workdays, research shows

A brand new evaluation of 46,499 employed adults within the United States, accomplished with information from the 2021–2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), discovered that current and frequent hashish use and hashish use dysfunction (CUD) had been related to better office absenteeism. This included each absences because of sickness/damage in addition to skipped work days. Among full-time employed adults, 15.9% used hashish previously month, with 6.5% assembly standards for CUD.

The research discovered that during the last 30 days, the imply variety of workdays missed due to sickness was 1.47 for individuals who did not have CUD however had used hashish inside the previous month. For those that had by no means used hashish, the imply variety of sick days was 0.95. While even rare hashish use was related to work absences, these with CUD had a 1.30–2.87 occasions greater incidence of lacking or skipping work in comparison with these with out CUD.

The research means that the impacts of hashish on adults within the office extends past those that meet the factors for CUD. However, the researchers emphasize the necessity for longitudinal research inspecting the influence of hashish use, in addition to qualitative research that may higher parse out the consequences of assorted compounding elements that weren’t accounted for on this research. These elements embody medicinal hashish use and whether or not individuals used hashish inside or outdoors work hours.

The research printed on August 26 within the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and was led by Kevin H. Yang, M.D., a third-year resident within the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Joseph J. Palamar, Ph.D, M.P.H, affiliate professor within the Department of Population Health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.