A key driver of ER marijuana-related visits to a Colorado hospital was a mysterious syndrome characterized by severe nausea and vomiting called CHS.
One of the key drivers of the ER visits is a, or CHS, very little is known about the condition.
When she became so uncontrollably sick that she resorted to scalding her skin in a hot bath for the third time in a row, Mrs. X began to wonder if it had something to do with smoking marijuana. Now, several recent studies from emergency room physicians across Europe and the US are beginning to suggest that CHS could be a lot more common than previously thought.on Monday by a team of clinicians in Colorado, where marijuana was legalized medically in 2009 and recreationally in 2014.
, the new paper's lead author and an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Business Insider.Nora Volkow
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