Cannabidiol, or CBD, reduced cue-induced craving and anxiety in drug-abstinent individuals with heroin use disorder, according to results from an exploratory double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Over the previous 20 years, more people have died from opioid overdose than in conflicts the U.S. has been involved with from World War II to the present, Yasmin L. Hurd, PhD, of the departments of psychiatry and neuroscience, from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told Healio Psychiatry.