From 2000 to 2017, the rate of exposures to natural psychoactive substances such as marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms increased by nearly 75% in the United States, according to a study
published Tuesday in the journal Clinical Toxicology.
The study was led by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio and analyzed 67,369 calls to Poison Control Centers of people inhaling or ingesting natural psychoactive substances. In 2000, the rate of exposure was 17.6 per 1 million people. In 2017, that rate almost doubled -- to 30.7 exposures per 1 million people.Marijuana made up 46.9% of the calls to Poison Control. The next two substances most frequently called about were anticholinergic plants and hallucinogenic mushrooms .
"These [substances] are viewed as sort of natural. They've been used for ages. So there's almost an assumption that they are safe," said study author Henry Spiller. Spiller is is the director of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital."We want to let [the public] know you do have to be cautious," he added.The calls studied included 42 deaths -- 20 of which involved marijuana and eight which involved kratom.
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