Phone therapy helps some with marijuana dependence
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Telephone therapy may help people dependent on marijuana kick the habit, a new study from Australia suggests. Researchers found that almost twice as many users significantly cut back on marijuana following four hour-long phone counseling sessions compared to those who were put on a treatment waiting list. Knowing therapy may work over the phone could help extend treatment to people in remote areas where in-person therapy is hard to come by, according to Peter Gates, from the University of New South Wales, and his colleagues. …