Dr. Berey Registration Award Winner for 2021 Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction

Dr. Benjamin Berey, CAAS Postdoctoral Fellow, is a Registration Award Winner for the APA Division 50 Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Conference 2021 that Dr. Liz Aston is serving on as a co-chair. Dr. Berey received this award for his research on the similarities and differences in preferences and use patterns among recreational and medical cannabis users.

His poster identified that medical cannabis users reported very structured use routines throughout the day whereas recreational users' consumption patterns were more variable. Cannabis was commonly used to manage myriad physical & psychiatric symptoms and for chronic conditions. Medical, but not recreational users reported prophylactic benefits of using cannabis. Medical and recreational cannabis users perceived that Indica cannabis strains produced sedative effects and that Sativa cannabis strains produced stimulant effects.