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14 HE ALTH • Summer 2019 Continued from Page 13 81 Hope Ave., Worcester, MA 01603, 508.983.6790, massccn.org Your Community Partner For MassHealth members, aged 3-64 with complex lifelong needs, MCCN works with your primary care team to coordinate care for your optimum health and wellbeing. Contact us at 508.983.6790 or info@massccn.org to ask about your eligibility, today! A 2018 online survey with 2,409 respondants found CBD users tend to be older, college-educated and slightly more likely to be female than male. Who uses CBD? Note: Some answers were left blank in survey. Source: "A Cross-Sectional Study of Cannabidiol Users" by Jamie Corroon and Joy A. Phillips Male Female 47.4% 50.9% G E N D E R : 35-44 A G E : 75 or older - 3.4% 45-54 55-64 24 or younger 25-34 65-74 E D U C AT I O N : Primary/middle school - 1% High school/GED Postgraduate College 6.3% 13.4% 18.4% 18.5% 24.4% 15.6% 23.1% 52.3% 18.9% anxiety, depression, and pain. Amazing Superstore in Northborough has regular customers for its CBD gummies, and bath and body products. Kharashqah sees a more open-mind- ed mindset on cannabis as a reason people are turning to CBD. "You're not just doing it to get high," she said. Downing, who began selling CBD products in 2013, dismisses talk of can- nabidiol being ineffective or even potentially unsafe. He simply points to referrals he says he gets from doctors for a broad array of symptoms. "I'm getting references from Dana Farber now," Downing said of the Boston cancer center. "None of the hospitals would ever refer someone to me until the last four or five months." Izzo, the Saint Vincent doctor, said other doctors who don't see CBD as such a panacea aren't reluctant to rec- ommend patients to holistic medicine. He recommends nutritional supple- ments such as ribof lavin and magne- sium for migraines, for instance. "It's not like we're averse to non-pre- scription supplements," Izzo said, con- trasting CBD with more proven natu- ral options. "Those have good scientif- ic evidence behind them." H