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A meta-study, which analyzed data across multiple studies, suggests that CBD can treat cocaine misuse.Researchers looked at data from 14 studies published over the last 5 years involving animal subjects who were administered both cocaine and CBD. According to the study, which was published recently in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, CBD “interferes in cocaine induced brain reward stimulation and dopamine release.”The test subjects reportedly self-administered less cocaine and used less cocaine overall after they began ingesting CBD. The study’s authors wrote, “CBD promotes alteration in contextual memory associated with cocaine and in the neuroadaptations, hepatotoxicity and seizures induced by cocaine.” One of the papers consulted for the meta-study also found that the chemical reward associated with cocaine is actually “blunted” by CBD.The meta-study’s authors concluded that human trials will be needed to test CBD’s efficacy as a treatment for humans suffering from cocaine use disorder, but its effects on animals seem overwhelmingly positive.According to the researchers, there is a single clinical trial currently testing CBD on human subjects in context of their cocaine use.