Threats to youth from cannabis industry and profits: NIDA
Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), called out the profit‐driven cannabis, tobacco, gambling, social media, and processed food industries for their harms to youth. She had some choice words for commercial interests involved in the addiction field in a Sept. 26 blog. Preying on the vulnerable — with drugs, social media, gambling, processed food, and other addictive products — is something she knows how to zone in on as an evil.
Authors
- Alison Knopf
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update
- Published
- 2024-11-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cpu30923
- Primary Topic
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00