Self-Reported Cannabis Use Is Associated With a Lower Rate of Persistent Opioid Use After Total Joint Arthroplasty.

The current study also did not find a difference in the duration of opioid use or MMEs prescribed although, with the larger numbers in this study, there was a trend toward significance in the subset of patients who underwent TKA.

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When examining TKAs (n = 128) separately as a group, there was also no difference in inpatient MMEs (114.9 vs 105.9, P = .36) or outpatient prescribed MMEs (191 vs 158, P = .06) between the self-reported cannabis users and matched controls, respectively, although the outpatient prescribed MMEs did trend toward significance.

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